For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
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