#  Becoming Children of God

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#  Scripture

John 1:9-13

English Standard Version

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own,\[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A9-13&version=ESV#fen-ESV-26045a "See footnote a")\] and his own people\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A9-13&version=ESV#fen-ESV-26045b "See footnote b")\] did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

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