Jeremiah 3:19
3:19 “I thought to myself,
‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son!
What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land,
the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’
I thought you would call me, ‘Father’
and would never cease being loyal to me.
Jeremiah 31:1
31:1 At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel
and they will be my people.
I, the Lord, affirm it!”
Jeremiah 31:9
31:9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition.
I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance.
I will lead them besides streams of water,
along smooth paths where they will never stumble.
I will do this because I am Israel’s father;
Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
Hosea 1:10
The Restoration of Israel
1:10 (2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are children of the living God!”
Romans 9:4-8
9:4 who are Israelites. To them belong
the adoption as sons,
the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship,
and the promises.
9:5 To them belong the patriarchs,
and from them,
by human descent,
came the Christ,
who is God over all, blessed forever!
Amen.
9:6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
Romans 9:2
9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Colossians 1:18
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
Galatians 3:26-29
3:26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
3:27 For all of you who
were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave
nor free, there is neither male nor female
– for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
3:29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants,
heirs according to the promise.