1 John 3:1
Look at how much love the Father has shown to us [Christians], that we should be called His children! But, that is what we [really] are! The reason the people of the world do not know who we are is because they do not know who God [really] is.
John 1:12
But He gave all those who did welcome Him the opportunity of becoming children of God by believing in His name [i.e., as the Messiah].
John 3:16
For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.
John 16:3
And they will do these things because they have not known [either] the Father or me.
John 17:25
Righteous Father, the world does not know you but I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
John 15:18-19
"If the world hates you, then know that it has [already] hated me, [even] before it hated you.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 8:14-17
For all of those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Romans 8:21
that the created world itself would be freed from its slavery to corrupting influences [i.e., produced by the fall] and receive the glorious freedom which belongs to God's children.
Romans 8:32
God did not withhold His own Son [from dying], but offered Him up for all of us. [Since He did that], will He not, along with Jesus, freely give us everything [else] also?
Romans 9:25-26
God said this also, in Hosea [2:23], "I [i.e., God] will call those people mine who were not [previously] my people. And [I will call] her 'dearly loved' who was not [previously] loved."
2 Corinthians 6:18
The Lord Almighty [also] said [Hos. 1:10], "I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me."
Galatians 3:26
For all of you are children of God through your faith in Christ Jesus [as God's only Son].
Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are [truly] Abraham's seed [i.e., his spiritual descendants] and thereby [you will] inherit what was promised to him [i.e., God's blessings].
Galatians 4:5-6
so that He could buy back [from Satan] those who were [still] under [obligation to] the law of Moses, and that we could become adopted children.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who has great love for us and abundant mercy [toward us],
Ephesians 3:18-19
so that you, along with all the saints [i.e., God's holy people], will be [spiritually] strong enough to grasp how wide and long and high and deep [Christ's love is];
Colossians 3:3
For you died [with Christ, See 2:20], and your life is [now] hidden with Christ in [fellowship with] God.
1 John 4:9-10
Here is the way God's love for us was demonstrated; He sent His one and only Son into the world so that we could have [spiritual] life through Him.
Revelation 21:7
The person who has victory [in the Christian life] will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my child.