28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

neither can they die any more; for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God. But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not really Gods; but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?

Jesus answered them, I tell you most truly, that every one who commits sin is a servant of the sin. But the servant continues not in the house for ever; the Son continues for ever. If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if 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 sons of God.

and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ;

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be children of light. Jesus said these things, and went away and concealed himself from them.

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

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

that having been justified by his grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will declare thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the assembly will I sing to thee.

And he answered and said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brothers? and stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother, and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

Whence he ought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a merciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers; he that loves not, continues in death.

We love, because he first loved us. If any one says, I love God, and hates 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 loud voice in heaven saying, Now has come the salvation and power and kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of the brothers, that accused them day and night before God, has been cast [to the earth].

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God,

As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was in his house. For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as he has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built. For every house is built 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, for a testimony of things to be spoken; but Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope.