5 Bible Verses about Adoption, Assurance Of
Most Relevant Verses
The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.
For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.
No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother. For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;read more.
not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Wonder not, brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers; he that loves not, continues in death. Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him. By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?
And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him, for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?read more.
But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons. Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness. And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.
