Being A Part Of The Family Of God

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

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. — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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 →

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

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

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

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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.

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!”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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

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.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — 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 →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. — read the full passage →

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.