'Sons' in the Bible

Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.

And in the last days it will be,' God says, 'that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, 'And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

(Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters," says the All-Powerful Lord.

so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

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

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls "Abba! Father!"

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will --

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham.

By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.