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2 Samuel 7 ESV​
(12) When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.​
(13) He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.​
(14) I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,​


Plural

2 Corinthians 6 ESV​
(16) What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.​
(17) Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,​
(18) and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.​
 

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Genesis 3 ESV​
(15) I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”​


Plural

Romans 16 ESV​
(17) I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.​
(18) For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.​
(19) For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.​
(20) The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.​
 

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Hosea 11 ESV​
(1) When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.​


One

Matthew 2 ESV​
(15) and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”​
 
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