Bible verses about "adoption" | Riverside

¹⁸ I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

²¹ When he had been exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

¹³ who were born not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I estimate that the sufferings of this present time amount to nothing in comparison with the glory that is to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁶ You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹² All who received him — to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

¹ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him.

⁸ That is, not the physical descendants are children, but the children of the promise are counted for descendants.

⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons. ⁶ Because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying Abba, Father. ⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then also an heir, through God's act.

⁵ Whoever receives one such little child for my name receives me;

⁵ He predestined us to recognition as sons to himself through Jesus Christ according to the kindness of his will,