Deuteronomy 14:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

The children

Ye shall not

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Bible References

The children

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children,

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

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

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

Ye shall not

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.