31 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

But to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

and not for that nation only, but also that he would gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,'

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,read more.
and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the revealing of the sons of God.

because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

"And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

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

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are members of God's household,

that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs and members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. For both he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."

For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.