30 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God.

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord,

For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God. You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!", it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God;read more.
and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

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

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you, I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship. It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!' So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature,

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering. For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and again, 'I will put my trust in him,' and again, 'Here am I and the children God has given me.'

for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father?

Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

The conqueror shall obtain this, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son;