In the new covenant the "Sons of God" refers to born again believers....In the old covenant there was no such thingy as a born again believer....The sons of God were the angels.
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The sons of God some called the neph'il are the
renown or
mighty of God. (Born again saints) .
giants' of faith . Like David strengthened by the Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit of faith killed the renown giant of the enemy . (Goliath) One little GPS guided stone made their renown giants of the enemy “deader than a door nail” .
The warning was to some of the sons of God not to be unevenly yoked with daughters of men (natural un-converted mankind. .The same law remains today .Do not be un evenly yoked with those who have no faith needed to please God .
The word neph'il as renown is used 11 times . Depending on context it represents
those of God or
those of the
enemy of the
gospel the
god of this world
Genesis 6:4 There were
giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the
sons of
God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same became
mighty men which were of old, men of
renown.
Numbers 1:16These were the
renowned of the
congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of
thousands in Israel.
Numbers 16:2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the
children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly,
famous in the congregation,
men of
renown:
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Isaiah 14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with
them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people:
the seed of evildoers shall never be
renowned.
Ezekiel 16:14And
thy renown went forth among the
heathen for
thy beauty: for it was perfect through
my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the
Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in
thine own beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy
renown, and pouredst out
thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 23:23The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and
renowned, all of
them riding upon horses.
Ezekiel 26:17And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the
renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and
her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel 34:29And I will raise up for them a
plant of
renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither
bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Ezekiel 39:13Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a
renownthe day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.
Daniel 9:15And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten
thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
John 3:1-2
Behold, what manner of
love the
Father hath bestowed upon
us, that
we should be called the
sons of
God: therefore the world knoweth
us not, because it knew him not.Beloved,
now are we the
sons of
God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but
we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like
him; for
we shall see
him as
he is.