Adoption

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

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a…

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

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

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,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

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.

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

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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?

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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

Beloved, now we are children of God. 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.

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

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

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

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

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

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

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You…