28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

They cannot die anymore for they are equal to the angels. They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

So you are no longer slaves but a son. And as a son God has made you an heir. However at that time, you did not know God. You were in bondage to things that are really not gods at all. Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

Jesus answered: Truly I tell you every one who commits sin is a slave of sin. The slave does not abide in the house forever. The son abides forever. If therefore the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.

For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father).

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.

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

All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

In the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, they will be called Sons of the living God. (Hosea 2:23)

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

While you have the light, exert active faith in the light, that you may become sons of light. Jesus said this and then he departed and hid himself from them.

You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light

You are all the children (sons) of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.

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

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

Being justified by his grace (loving kindness), we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

When God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he confirmed it with an oath.

Both he who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all from one. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says: I will declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation I will sing praises to you.

But he answered: Who is my mother? Who are my brothers? He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said: Behold, my mother and my brothers! For everyone who does the will of my Father who is in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Those he first recognized, he ordained in advance that they be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

This means that he had to become like his brothers in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, in order to offer a propitiatory sacrifice (pay atonement) (to make reconciliation) 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 abides in death.

We love, because he first loved us. If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now has come the salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power (authority) of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God.

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

He was faithful to Him who appointed him, just as Moses was in His entire house. He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. This is because the builder of the house has more honor than the house. Every house has a builder. God is the builder of all things.read more.
Indeed Moses was faithful in His house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken afterwards. Christ was faithful as a Son over God's house. We are His house if we hold on to our courage (confidence) and rejoice (speak boldly) about our hope until the end.