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

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)

¹⁷ “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my^(A) treasured possession.^(B) I will spare^(C) them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son^(D) who serves him.

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)—

²⁶ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God^(A) through faith,

⁵ to redeem^(A) those under the law, that we might receive adoption^(B) to sonship.^[a](C)

⁵ he^[a] predestined^(A) us for adoption to sonship^[b](B) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure^(C) and will—

⁷ Those who are victorious^(A) will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^(B)