5 Bible Verses about Adoption, Assurance Of
Most Relevant Verses
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirits that we are God's children;
For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."
No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God. This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother. it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another.read more.
We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright. You must not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death. Anyone who keeps on hating his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer can have eternal life remaining in him. We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?
and you have forgotten the encouragement which is addressed to you as sons: "My son, refrain from thinking lightly of the discipline the Lord inflicts, and giving up when you are corrected by Him. For He disciplines everyone He loves, and chastises every son whom He heartily receives." You must submit to discipline. God is dealing with you as His sons. For who is the son that his father never disciplines?read more.
Now if you are without any discipline, in which all true sons share, you are only illegitimate children and not true sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we used to treat them with respect; how much more cheerfully should we submit to the Father of our spirits, and live! For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character. Now for the time being no discipline seems to be pleasant; it is painful; later on, however, to those who are trained by it, it yields the fruit of peace which grows from upright character.
