'Sons' in the Bible

Blessed [are] the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

And if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel [them]? For this [reason] they will be your judges!

and the field is the world. And the good seed--these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.

He said, "Yes." And [when he] came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes--from their own sons, or from foreigners?"

And [when he] said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, [and] kneeling down [she] asked something from him.

And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom."

"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled.

Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, "And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, [on] whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel,

among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

and James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"),

"Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme.

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him [and] said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you."

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

and so also [were] James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were business partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid! From now on you will be catching people!"

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel [them]? For this [reason] they will be your judges!

And he said, "A certain man had two sons.

And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.

And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, [because they] are sons of the resurrection.

You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these [things], and [then] he went away [and] was hidden from them.

Simon Peter and Thomas (who was called Didymus) and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee and the [sons] of Zebedee and two others of his disciples were together.

'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

And [when they] heard [this], they entered at daybreak into the temple [courts] and began teaching. Now [when] the high priest and those with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin--even the whole council of elders of the sons of Israel--and sent to the prison to have them brought.

And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

"But when {he was forty years old}, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

And at this statement, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

"This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'

But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel.

[As for] the message that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ--this one is Lord of all--

"Men [and] brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!

(Now seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.)

For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God.

And it will be in the place where it was said to them, 'You [are] not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "[Even] if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved,

But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory,

and not as Moses used to place a veil over his face, in order that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was transitory.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

then understand that the ones {who have faith}, these are sons of Abraham.

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

And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! (Father!),"

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

(which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit):

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

By faith Jacob, [as he] was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, [leaning] on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, [as he] was dying, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones.

And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

But if you are without discipline, in which all [legitimate sons] have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

And I heard the number of the ones who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

It has a great and high wall that has twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on [the gates] which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel--