20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Chosen People
• Grace
• Love

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
• 1John 4:9 — In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
• 1John 4:10 — Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• 1John 4:16 — And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
• 1John 4:17 — Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
• 1Kgs 8:27 — But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
• 1Thess 5:8 — But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
• 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
• 2Sam 7:19 — And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
• Col 1:12 — Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
• Col 1:23 — If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul
• Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Deut 14:1 — Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
• Deut 32:6 — Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
• Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Eph 1:18 — The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Eph 2:4 — But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Eph 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Eph 3:18 — May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
• Eph 4:6 — One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
• Eph 5:1 — Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
• Exod 2:10 — And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
• Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 3:29 — And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
• Gal 4:5 — To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• Gal 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
• Gal 4:31 — So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
• Heb 2:10 — For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Heb 6:11 — And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
• Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
• Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
• Isa 56:5 — Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
• Isa 64:4 — For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
• Jas 1:9 — Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
• Jer 3:19 — But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from m
• Jer 3:19 — But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from m
• John 1:10 — He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
• John 1:12 — But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: