28 Bible Verses about Adoption, descriptions of

for 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 slave, but a son; and, if a son, also an heir through God. But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods; but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?

Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave of sin. And the slave abides not in the house forever; the son abides forever. If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, ye will be free indeed.

For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father."

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."

for ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

While ye have the Light, believe on the Light, that ye may become sons of Light" These things spake Jesus, and, going away, He was hidden from them.

for ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.

and, if children, heirs also; heirs, indeed, of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if, indeed, we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.

And, if ye are Christ's, ye are, consequently, Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

For both He Who sanctifieth and those who are sanctified are all of One; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, "I will declare Thy name to my brethren; in the midst of an assembly will I sing praise to Thee."

But He, answering, said to him that told Him, "Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?" And stretching forth His hand toward His disciples, He said, "Behold, My mother and My brothers! For whosoever does the will of My Father Who is in Heaven, he is My brother, and sister, and mother."

because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

Wherefore, it behooved Him in all things to be made like His brethren, that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

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

And I heard a great voice in Heaven, saying, "Now came the salvation, and the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ; because the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;

Accordingly, therefore, ye are no longer strangers and sojourners; but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the house-hold of God;

So, then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those of the household of the faith.

Who was faithful to Him Who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His house. For This One has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who built the house hath more honor than the house; for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God.read more.
And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of the things to be afterward spoken; but Christ as a Son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.