28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

For they cannot die again. They are like the angels, and since they are reborn in the resurrection, are children of God.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir by God's own act. But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist, but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin. Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does. So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him. Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

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

And in the place where it was said, 'You are no people of mine,' they shall be called sons of the living God."

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

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

for 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, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are real descendants of Abraham, and heirs in accordance with the promise made to him.

so that we might come into right standing with God through His unmerited favor and become heirs of eternal life in accordance with our hope.

Therefore, because God wanted to make the strongest demonstration of the unchangeable character of His purpose, He interposed with an oath,

For both He who is purifying them and those who are being purified all spring from one Father; so He is not ashamed to call them brothers, when He says: "I will announce your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

But He answered the man who told Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And with a gesture toward His disciples He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

Therefore He had to be made like His brothers, so that He could be a sympathetic High Priest, as well as a faithful one, in things relating to God, in order to atone for the people's sins.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

We love, because He loved us first. If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually 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 salvation, power, and kingdom of our God, and the sovereignty of His Christ, have already come, because the accuser of our brothers, who always day and night accuses them before our God, has been hurled down.

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

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God. For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses. For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God.read more.
Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken, but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.