5 Bible Verses about Adoption, Assurance Of
Most Relevant Verses
The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are the children of God;
For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
Whoever has been begotten of God does not work sin; because his seed remains in him: and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God. By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother. For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.read more.
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother s, righteous. Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death. Whoever hates his brother, is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him. For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?read more.
But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons. So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live? For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
