Study Desk

God didn't give him any part of it, not even a square foot. But God did promise to give it to him and his family forever, even though Abraham didn't have any children.

He was treated like a nobody and did not receive a fair trial. How can he have children, if his life is snatched away?"

and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said.

Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made.

But when the week was over, we started on our way again. All the men, together with their wives and children, walked with us from the town to the seashore. We knelt on the beach and prayed.

Abraham's faith never became weak, not even when he was nearly a hundred years old. He knew that he was almost dead and that his wife Sarah could not have children.

Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children.

God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father.

God's Spirit makes us sure that we are his children.

In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are.

that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children.

The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free.

and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so that his Son would be the first of many children.

"Once they were told, ‘You are not my people.' But in that very place they will be called children of the living God."

You are God's children. He sent Christ Jesus to save us and to make us wise, acceptable, and holy.

I am not writing to embarrass you. I want to help you, just as parents help their own dear children.

Ten thousand people may teach you about Christ, but I am your only father. You became my children when I told you about Christ Jesus,

Your husband or wife who isn't a follower is made holy by having you as a mate. This also makes your children holy and keeps them from being unclean in God's sight.

When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways.

My friends, stop thinking like children. Think like mature people and be as innocent as tiny babies.