'Children' in the Bible

For all of you are God's children through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.

in order to redeem those who were under the Law, and thus to adopt them as his children.

Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"

My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."

So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.