This list contains passages in which God calls people by name, identifies them as his own, or gives them a people, family, or covenant identity.
References
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Isaiah 43:1
Exposition in development
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Israel’s Only Savior
43:1 But now thus says the LORD, |
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Romans 9:25
Exposition in development
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25 As indeed he says in Hosea,
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ |
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1 John 3:1
Exposition in development
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3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. |
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1 Peter 2:9
Exposition in development
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9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. |
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Romans 9:24
Exposition in development
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24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? |
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John 1:12
Exposition in development
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12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, |
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