31 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and tendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Most High; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the wicked.

But as many as did receive him, on them he bestowed authority to become children of God, even on those who believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

and not for that nation only, but that he should collect into one body the children of God wherever dispersed.

that the residue of men may diligently seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles, among whom my name is invoked, even among them, saith the Lord, who doth all these things."

For as many as are guided by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 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. The same spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.read more.
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.

For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the children of God.

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

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.

That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

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 to which of the angels ever said he, "My Son art thou, I have to-day begotten thee?" And again, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

"Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you, and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

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

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

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. But because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father! Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

having predestinated us for his adopted children by Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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

that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel:

of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named;

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;

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation by sufferings. 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,

And again, "I will place my confidence in him." And again, "Behold! Here am I, and the children which God hath given me."

for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?

If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be to him a God, and he shall be to me a son.