A title for all who believe in God and do His will: "Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God" (1 John 3). See also adoption. Saint Paul says we are called "into the liberty of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8).
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