30 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

"And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

"But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in 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 in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

"So that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, Even all the Gentiles, who are called by my name,

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit. For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!" For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;read more.
and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

And in that very spot where it was told them, "You are not my people," There they shall be called "Sons of the living God."

For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son?

Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

to redeem from captivity those under law, in order that we might receive our sonship. And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!" So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ,

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

And again, I myself will put my trust in God. And again, Lo, I and the children God has given me.

For it is those whom he loves that he disciplines, And he scourges every son whom he acknowledges. It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him. We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

He who overcomes will inherit these, And I will be his God, And he shall be my son.