31 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called children of God.

that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Most High; for he is good to the unthankful and evil.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name, who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

and not for the nation only, but to bring together into one [body] all the children of God scattered abroad.

that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on whom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.read more.
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.

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

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

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;

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

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 to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you, and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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

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

that he might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.

having predestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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

that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

of whom all the family in heaven and on earth is named,

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,

For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, to perfect by sufferings the prince of their salvation, bringing many sons to glory. For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold me and the children which God gave me.

for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected 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. 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.

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

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

He that conquers shall inherit these things, and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a son.