28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

For they can die no more; for they are like the angels, and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ. But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods: now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin. The servant continues not in the house forever; but the Son continues forever. Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.

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.

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

in hope, that even the creature itself shall be made free from the bondage of corruption, and introduced into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

that you may be without reproach and Harmless, the children of God, without blame, in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

for you are all the sons of God, by faith in Christ Jesus:

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become the sons of light. These things spoke Jesus, and he departed, and concealed himself from them.

For you were formerly darkness; but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

that, being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,

For both he that sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all of one Father: for which reason, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: I will declare thy name among my brethren; in the midst of the assembly, will I sing hymns to thee.

But he answered and said to him that told him: Who is my mother? and who are my brothers? And he stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said: Behold my mother and my brothers. For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

"Wherefore, it behooved him to be made like his brethren in all things, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, in order to make expiation for the sins of the people.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

We love him, because he first loved us. If any man say, I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying: Now has come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren, he that accused them before our God day and night, is cast down.

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as Moses also was faithful in all his house. For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has builded the house, has more honor than the house. For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.read more.
And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, to bear testimony to those things which were to be spoken afterward; but Christ, as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold the confidence and the joy of our hope firm to the end.