27 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

neither marry nor are given in marriage; for they are not able yet to die; for they are like the angels, and sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin. But the slave abides not in the house forever; the Son abides forever. If therefore the Son may make you free, you shall be free indeed.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

therefore indeed pursuant to hope, the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

and it shall come to pass, in the place in which it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God:

For you are all the sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus;

While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may be the sons of light. And Jesus spoke these things, and having gone out was hidden from them.

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

for you are all the sons of light, and the sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness;

And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together.

But if you belong to Christ then you are the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

in order that, being justified by his faith, we may be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

For both the one sanctifying and they who are sanctified are all of one: on account of which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will proclaim thy name to thy brethren, in the midst of the church will sing praises to thee.

And He responding said to the one speaking to Him; Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? And reaching forth His hand to His disciples, He said, Behold my mother and my brothers! For whosoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.

Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

Therefore he ought in all things to be made like unto his brethren, in order that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things appertaining to God, to the end that he may atone for the sins of the people.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love. If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now has come salvation, and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren, the one accusing them before our God day and night, is cast out.

Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God,

Then therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

being faithful to him who appointed him, as indeed Moses in all his house. For he is esteemed worthy of more honor than Moses, inasmuch as the One having built it, has more honor than the house. For every house is built by some one; and the one having built all things is God.read more.
And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, unto the testimony of those things which shall be spoken; but Christ was as a son, over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and rejoicing of hope firm unto the end.