5 Bible Verses about Adoption, Assurance Of
Most Relevant Verses
For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;
For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"
Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."read more.
We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous. Do not wonder, brothers, if the world continues to hate you. We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death. Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?
and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you; For it is those whom he loves that he disciplines, And he scourges every son whom he acknowledges. It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?read more.
If you are left without discipline, in which all children share, then are you bastards and not sons. Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness. Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.
