'Children' in the Bible

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.