for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God. In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all; but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave. Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does. So, if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God.

on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of the Light." [vss 36b to

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

you are all sons of the Light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,'

But he replied to the man who told him this, "Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?" Stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

We love, because He loved us first. If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now it has come, the salvation and power, the reign of our God and the authority of his Christ! ??for the Accuser of our brothers is thrown down, who accused them before God day and night.

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house, Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself. (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.)read more.
Besides, while Moses was faithful in every department of God's house as an attendant ??by way of witness to the coming revelation ??6 Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.