28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

neither can they die any more: for they are like the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ. But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods. But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That every one who committeth sin is the slave of sin. But the slave abideth not in the family for ever: but the son abideth for ever. If the Son therefore make you free, ye will be truly free.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

in hope that the same creation shall be emancipated from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

For as many as are guided by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God."

For ye are all the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Jesus, and going away, concealed himself from them.

For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of day: we are not the children of night, nor of darkness.

But if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be we suffer with him, that we may also together with him be glorified.

But if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

that justified by his grace, we might become heirs in hope of eternal life.

And thus God, designing more abundantly to demonstrate to the heirs of promise the immutability of his will, pledged himself by oath,

For both he that sanctifies, and they who are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, "I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church I will sing hymns to thee."

But he answered and said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And stretching out his hand towards his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

Wherefore he ought in all things to be made like to his brethren, in order to become a merciful and faithful high-priest in those things which relate to God, to make a propitiation for the sins of the people:

We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

We love him, because he first loved us. If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

So then ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as Moses also was in all his house. For this personage hath been counted worthy of higher glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built it, hath greater honour than the house. For every house is built by some person; but he who is the architect of all things is God.read more.
And Moses indeed was faithful in all that house of his as a servant, to bear testimony of the things which should be after spoken; but Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and glorying of hope stedfast unto the end.