16 Bible Verses about Christians Are Called Children
Most Relevant Verses
Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him. Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is.
It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
Can you not in return--I appeal to you as I should to children--open your hearts to us?
But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.
Therefore imitate God, as his dear children, And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'
And in the very place where it was said to them-"Ye are not my People", they shall be called Sons of the Living God.'
For, although you were once in Darkness, now, by your union with the Lord, you are in the Light. Live as 'Children of Light'- -
And if children, then heirs-heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, since we share Christ's sufferings in order that we may also share his Glory.
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters," says the Lord, the Ruler of all.'
For you all are 'Sons of Light' and 'Sons of the Day.' We have nothing to do with night, or darkness.
And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham's offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.
It is through this that love has attained its perfection in us, so that we may have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because what Christ is that we also are in this world.
From the first he destined us, in his good-will towards us, to be adopted as Sons through Jesus Christ,
My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--
The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God's children,
