Deuteronomy 14:1

⁸That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

⁵“‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

²⁶For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁶“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

⁵men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the LORD’s house.

¹⁰For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

⁶Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

¹⁰Yet 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.’

¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;