Adoption

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

`And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; — read the full passage →

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

that is, the children of the flesh--these <FI>are<Fi> not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name, — read the full passage →

`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

who--not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but--of God were begotten.

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; — read the full passage →

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; — read the full passage →

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, — read the full passage →

that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and it shall be--in the place where it was said to them, Ye <FI>are<Fi> not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

and if ye <FI>are<Fi> of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise--heirs.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

who are Israelites, whose <FI>is<Fi> the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; — read the full passage →

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, — read the full passage →

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

`Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him--a God, and he shall be to me--the son,

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

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

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified <FI>are<Fi> all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!' — read the full passage →

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