the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterwards, when the sons of God came to the daughters of man, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the LORD says: Israel is My firstborn son.

I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!"

I said, "You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.

However, you will die like men and fall like any other ruler."

I thought: How I long to make you [My] sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations. I thought: You will call Me, my Father, and never turn away from Me.

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not My people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.

But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name,

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God's children,

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but the children of the promise are considered seed.

And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not My people, there they will be called sons of the living God.

I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.

for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

For it was fitting, in bringing many sons to glory, that He, for whom and through whom all things exist, should make the source of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn't know Him.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is.

This is how God's children-- and the Devil's children-- are made evident. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

This is how we know that we love God's children when we love God and obey His commands.

You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.

"Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

80 men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their garments, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the LORD.

Baldness is coming to Gaza. Ashkelon will become silent, a remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.