15 He said to them,"But who do you say I am?"
16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!"
17 Then Jesus said to him,"How blessed are you, Simon, son of John!For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven has.
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
7 So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir through God.
1 See what kind of love the Father has given us in letting us be called God's children! Yet that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him either.
9 "How blessed are those who make peace,for it is they who will be called God's children!
26 For all of you are God's children through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 Indeed, all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
14 For all who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.
15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
7 What you endure is for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
8 Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not his sons.
31 But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.
16 "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.
8 That is, it is not the children of natural descent who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants.
10 This is how God's children and the devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.
12 However, to all who received him, to those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,
13 who were born, not merely in a physical sense, or from a fleshly impulse, or from man's desire, but of God.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as his children.