1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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Genesis 48:5
And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.
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Exodus 4:22
And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
Isaiah 63:16
For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
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Psalms 36:8
The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
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Matthew 5:45
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
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Matthew 6:8
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
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Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
Galatians 4:31
So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.
Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Colossians 1:5
Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,
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Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
John 15:19
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Romans 8:30
And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
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Romans 8:18
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.
Galatians 4:4
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Philippians 3:21
By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 1:4
And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
1 John 2:28
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
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Ephesians 5:1
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
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John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
1 John 3:9
Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
1 John 3:16
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
1 John 4:8
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
1 John 4:16
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
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Revelation 2:17
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.
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Revelation 3:12
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
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