Gen 33:5, 48:9, Psa 127:3, Joh 10:29, 17:6-12, 1Cor 4:15 | ESV | STEP | And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children , he said , Who are these with you? Jacob said , The children whom God has graciously given your servant .

5 And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, ^a“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 48:9

9 Joseph said to his father, ^b“They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that ^cI may bless them.”

Psalms 127:3

3 Behold, ^dchildren are a heritage from the Lord,
^ethe fruit of the womb a reward.

John 10:29

29 My Father, ^fwho has given them to me, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me} ^his greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ⁱthe Father’s hand.

John 17:6-12

6 ^j“I have manifested your name to the people ^kwhom you gave me out of the world. ^lYours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything ^mthat you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them ⁿthe words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^oI came from you; and ^pthey have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. ^qI am not praying for the world but for those ^rwhom you have given me, for ^sthey are yours. 10 ^tAll mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^uI am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but ^vthey are in the world, and ^wI am coming to you. ^xHoly Father, ^ykeep them in your name, ^zwhich you have given me, ^aathat they may be one, ^abeven as we are one. 12 ^acWhile I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^adguarded them, and ^aenot one of them has been lost except ^afthe son of destruction, ^agthat the Scripture might be fulfilled.

1 Corinthians 4:15

15 For ^ahthough you have countless ^{▼▼Greek you have ten thousand} guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For ^ajI became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.