28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God. However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. A bondservant does not live in the house forever. A son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba. Father."

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

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

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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

If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" And he stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Look, my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.

We love, because he first loved us. If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.read more.
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.