28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

neither are married, nor yet can die any more. For they are equal unto the angels: and are the sons of God, inasmuch as they are the children of the resurrection.

Wherefore now art thou not a servant, but a son. If thou be the son, thou art also the heir of God through Christ. Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods: But now, seeing ye know God - yea rather are known of God - how is it that ye turn again unto the weak and beggarly ceremonies, whereunto again ye desire afresh to be in bondage?

Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, That whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house forever: But the son abideth ever. If the son therefore shall make you free, then are ye free indeed.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear anymore, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, "Abba father."

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him. Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

For the very creatures shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it 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, in the place where it was said unto them, 'ye are not my people,' that there shall be called the children of the living God."

For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

While ye have light, believe on the light that ye may be the children of light." These things spake Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them.

Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness.

If we be sons, we are also heirs: the heirs, I mean, of God: and heirs annexed with Christ. If so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified together.

If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs by promise.

that we, once justified by his grace, should be heirs of eternal life, through hope.

So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,

Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren, and in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee."

He answered and said to him that told him, "Who is my mother? Or who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand over his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever doth my father's will which is in heaven, the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

For those which he knew before, he also ordained before, that they should be like fashioned unto the shape of his son, that he might be the first begotten son among many brethren.

Wherefore in all things it became him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful, and a faithful high priest in things concerning God, for to purge the people's sins.

We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death.

We love him, because he loved us first. If a man say, "I love God," and yet hate his brother, he is a liar. For how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen?

And I heard a loud voice saying, "In heaven is now made salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: For he is cast down which accused them before God day and night:

Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

While we have, therefore, time; let us do good unto all men, and specially, unto them which are of the household of faith.

which was faithful to him that made him even as was Moses in all his house. And this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses; Inasmuch as he which hath prepared the house, hath most honour in the house. Every house is prepared of some man. But he that ordained all things is God.read more.
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a minister, to bear witness of those things which should be spoken afterward. But Christ, as a son, hath rule over the house, whose house we are, so that we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of that hope, unto the end.