22 Bible Verses about sonship

For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!"

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act.

And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.

in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons.

and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.

To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.

To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.

but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;