12 But all who have received Him, to them –that is, to those who trust in His name– He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;
13 who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.
25 not neglecting –as some habitually do– to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.
7 The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.
9 Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
10 It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.
33 »Who are my mother and my brothers?« He replied.
34 And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him in a circle, He said,
35 »Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother –my sister– and my mother.«
1 Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;
2 the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.
15 You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being –a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons– a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, »Abba! our Father!«
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;
17 and if children, then heirs too–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, in order that we may also be sharers in His glory.
4 But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,
5 in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry »Abba! our Father!«
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act.
26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;
27 for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.
35 Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does.
5 so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.
1 See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us –that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us– because it has not known Him.
2 Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.
26 And if one part is suffering, every other part suffers with it; or if one part is receiving special honor, every other part shares in the joy.
14 For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father,
15 from whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name,
5 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ –such being His gracious will and pleasure–
6 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
19 You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.
20 You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,
21 in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;
22 in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.
42 »If God were your Father,« said Jesus, »you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but He sent me.