See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
1 John 3:1 · World English Bible
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God so loved: the same love that gave His Son makes us His children.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
The same threadGalatians 4:4-5
He sent forth His Son… that we might receive adoption as children.
“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.”
The same threadEphesians 1:5
Predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, in love.
“having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,”