Jeremiah 3:19

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand.

He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

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

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,