Romans 8:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children.

Cross References

Psalm 143:10

You are my God. Show me what you want me to do, and let your gentle Spirit lead me in the right path.

Proverbs 8:20

I always do what is right,

Hosea 1:10

Some day it will be impossible to count the people of Israel, because there will be as many of them as there are grains of sand along the seashore. They are now called “Not My People”, but in the future they will be called “Children of the Living God”.

Matthew 5:9

God blesses those people who make peace. They will be called his children!

John 1:12

Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.

Romans 8:19

In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are.

Romans 8:5

People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things.

Romans 8:9

You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.

Romans 9:26

“Once they were told, ‘You are not my people.’ But in that very place they will be called children of the living God.”

2 Corinthians 6:18

and be your Father. You will be my sons and my daughters, as surely as I am God, the All-Powerful.”

Galatians 3:26

All of you are God's children because of your faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5

so he could set us free from the Law, and we could become God's children.

Galatians 4:6

Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. And his Spirit tells us that God is our Father.

Galatians 5:16

If you are guided by the Spirit, you won't obey your selfish desires.

Galatians 5:18

But if you obey the Spirit, the Law of Moses has no control over you.

Ephesians 1:5

God was kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God's own adopted children.

Ephesians 5:9

and make your light shine. Be good and honest and truthful,

1 John 3:1

Think how much the Father loves us. He loves us so much that he lets us be called his children, as we truly are. But since the people of this world did not know who Christ is, they don't know who we are.

1 John 3:24

If we obey God's commandments, we will stay united in our hearts with him, and he will stay united with us. The Spirit that he has given us is proof that we are one with him.

Revelation 21:7

All who win the victory will be given these blessings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.