5 Bible Verses about Adoption, Assurance Of
Most Relevant Verses
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children 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!
Whoever hath been born of God doth not commit sin, because his seed abideth in him; and he cannot sin, because he hath been born of God. 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. For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;read more.
not as Cain was of the Evil One, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren; he that loveth not abideth in death. Whoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath everlasting life abiding in him. Herein we know love, in that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever hath this worlds goods, and seeth his brother having need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with sons: "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him; 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?read more.
But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons. 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? For they indeed for a few days chastened us, according as it seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now all chastening for the present indeed seemeth to be not joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yieldeth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
