28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God. But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist, but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does. So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him. Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons.

And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through your faith.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, and say, "I will tell your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

But he said to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And he pointed to his disciples and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

We love because he loved us first. If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "The deliverance and power and reign of our God, and the authority of his Christ have now come, for the accuser of our brothers, who kept bringing charges against them day and night before our God, has been hurled down.

So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.

has been to the God who appointed him, just as Moses was, in all the house of God. For Jesus is entitled to as much more honor than Moses as the builder of a house is than the house he builds. For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.read more.
Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say; but Christ's faithfulness was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are that house, if we keep up our courage and our triumphant hope to the very end.