Genesis 33:5
33:5 When Esau
looked up
and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob
replied, “The children whom God has graciously given
your servant.”
Genesis 48:9
48:9 Joseph said to his father, “They are the
sons God has given me in this place.” His father
said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
Psalms 127:3
127:3 Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb is a reward.
John 10:29
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can snatch
them from my Father’s hand.
John 17:6-12
Jesus Prays for the Disciples
17:6 “I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.
17:7 Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,
17:8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
17:9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.
17:10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.
17:11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.
John 17:1
Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him
17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you –
Colossians 4:15
4:15 Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters
who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her
house.