28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods. But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever. Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

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. Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

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

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

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

While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.

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so that having been justified by His grace,
we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:

I will proclaim Your name to My brothers;
I will sing hymns to You in the congregation.

But He replied to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, that person is My brother and sister and mother.”

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.

Therefore, He had to be like His brothers in every way, so that He could become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of His Messiah
have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers
has been thrown out:
the one who accuses them
before our God day and night.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

Therefore, as we have opportunity, we must work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God’s household. For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God. read more.
Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household. And we are that household if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope.