31 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

Blessed are the peacemakers; for they will be called sons of God.

that ye may become sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

But love your enemies, and do good and lend, despairing of no one; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the unthankful and wicked.

But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God,to those who believed 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 for the nation only, but that he might also gather together in one body the children of God that are scattered abroad.

that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, and all the gentiles, who have been called by my name, saith the Lord, who doeth these things,

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage so as to be again in fear; but ye received the spirit of adopted children, whereby we cry, Abba, Father! The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;read more.
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For he determined beforehand that those whom he foreknew should be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.

And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God."

For to which of the angels did he ever say: "Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee?" and again: "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

"Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean;" "and I will receive you, and will be to you a father, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

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

and if ye belong to Christ, then are ye Abrahams offspring, heirs according to the promise.

to redeem those under the Law, that we might be adopted as sons. And to show that ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father! So then thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

having in love predestinated us for himself to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellowcitizens with the saints, and members of the household of God,

that the gentiles are fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel;

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

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren;

And again, "I will put my trust in him;" and again, "Behold, I, and the children which God gave me."

for whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth; and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom the father chasteneth not?

Furthermore, we were chastened by the fathers of our flesh, 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 hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God l For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we children of God, and it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be. We know that, when it shall be manifested, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil. Whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

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

He that overcometh shall inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.