Ephesians 1:5

Praise To God For Spiritual Blessings

⁴ For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love ⁵ He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, ⁶ to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

Adoption as Sons

Christ Jesus

For Us

Jesus Christ

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

Romans 8:29-30

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Ephesians 1:11

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

Romans 8:23

And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits—we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

Ephesians 1:9

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

Jeremiah 3:4

Have you not lately called to Me, “My Father.
You were my friend in my youth.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought: How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.
I thought: You will call Me, my Father,
and never turn away from Me.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing,
and He does what He wants with the army of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can hold back His hand
or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not My people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.

Matthew 1:25

but did not know her intimately until she gave birth to a son. And he named Him Jesus.

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

Luke 10:21

In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

Luke 11:32

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation, and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

John 1:12

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

John 20:17

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

Romans 8:14-17

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

Romans 9:11-16

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Sosthenes our brother:

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

Galatians 3:26

for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5-6

to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

Hebrews 2:10-15

For in bringing many sons to glory, it was entirely appropriate that God—all things exist for Him and through Him—should make the source of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 12:5-9

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

1 John 3:1

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

Revelation 21:7

The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.