31 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

"Happy are the peacemakers; because they shall be called sons of God.

that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

"But love your enemies; and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those believing in His name; who were born, not of bloods, 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 might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.

that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, even all the gentiles upon whom My name has been called,'

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself testifieth with our spirit, that we are children of God;read more.
and, if children, heirs also; heirs, indeed, of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if, indeed, we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.

For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

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

For to whom of the angels said He at any time, "You are My Son; I this day have begotten you?" And again, "I will be to him a Father; and He shall be to me a Son?"

Wherefore, "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate," saith the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you; and I 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 are Christ's, ye are, consequently, Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

that He might redeem those under law, that, we might receive the adoption of sons. And, because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba," Father. So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, also an heir through God.

having predestinated us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Accordingly, therefore, ye are no longer strangers and sojourners; but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the house-hold of God;

that the gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partners with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel;

from Whom every family in Heaven and on earth is named,

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

For it was becoming Him, on Whose account are all things, and through Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect, through suffering, the Captain of their salvation. For both He Who sanctifieth and those 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 whom God gave me."

for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He acknowledgeth." For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?

Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He 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: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

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

He that overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and He will be to Me a son.