'Children' in the Bible

But to all who did receive Him,He gave them the right to be children of God,to those who believe in His name,

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.