Adoption

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

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

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

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

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

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

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. — read the full passage →

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

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

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!” — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: