6 Bible Verses about Israel As Sons Of God

Upon this complaint, I thought thus by myself: Is not Ephraim my dear son? Is he not the child, with whom I have had all mirth and pastime? For since the time that I first communed with him, I have him ever in remembrance: therefore my very heart driveth me unto him; gladly and lovingly will I have mercy upon him, sayeth the LORD.

Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.

I have said, "Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most highest.

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities' sake.