16 (A)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

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16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit(A) that we are God’s children.(B)

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19 For the creation waits with eager longing for (A)the revealing of the sons of God.

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19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God(A) to be revealed.

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This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but (A)the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

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In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(A) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(B)

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26 (A)“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called (B)‘sons of the living God.’”

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26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10

Clean and Unclean Food

14 “You are (A)the sons of the Lord your God. (B)You shall not cut yourselves or make any (C)baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

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Clean and Unclean Food(A)

14 You are the children(B) of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 1:10 Or Sons

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(A) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(B)

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12 But to all who did receive him, (A)who believed in his name, (B)he gave the right (C)to become (D)children of God,

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12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed(A) in his name,(B) he gave the right to become children of God(C)

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