Romans 8:14

Easy To Read Version

The true children of God are those people that let God’s Spirit lead them.

Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Show me what you want me to do.\par You are my God.\par

Proverbs 8:20

I lead people in the right way.\par I lead them along the paths\par of right judgment.\par

Hosea 1:10

“\{In the future,\} the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea. You can’t measure the sand or count it. Then it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said to them, ‘You are the children of the living God.’

Matthew 5:9

What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace!\par God will call them his sons and daughters.\par

John 1:12

Some people did accept him. They believed in him. He gave something to those people who believed. He gave them the right to become children of God.

Romans 8:19

Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.

Romans 8:5

People that live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those people that live following the Spirit {\cf2\super [62]} are thinking about the things that the Spirit wants them to do.

Romans 8:9

But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, {\cf2\super [63]} if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But if any person does not have the Spirit of Christ, then that person does not belong to Christ.

Romans 9:26

“And in the same place that God said,\par ‘You are not my people’—\par in that place they will be called\par sons of the living God.”\par \i (Hosea 1:10)\i0 \par

Romans 9:8

This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those people that become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father,\par and you will be my sons and daughters,\par says the Lord All-Powerful.”\par \i (2 Samuel 7:8,14)\i0 \par

Galatians 4:5

God did this so that he could buy the freedom of the people who were under the law. God’s purpose was to make us his children.

Galatians 4:6

You are God’s children. That is why God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. The Spirit {\cf2\super [49]} cries out, “Abba, {\cf2\super [50]} Father.”

Galatians 5:16

So I tell you: Live by following the Spirit. {\cf2\super [71]} Then you will not do the evil things your sinful selves want.

Galatians 5:18

But if you let the Spirit lead you, then you are not under law. {\cf2\super [72]}

Ephesians 1:5

And before the world was made, God decided to make us his own children through Jesus Christ. That was what God wanted to do. That pleased him.

Ephesians 5:9

Light brings every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

1 John 3:1

The Father (God) has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are God’s children. But the people in the world (people who don’t believe) don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him (God).

1 John 3:24

The person who obeys God’s commands lives in God. And God lives in that person. How do we know that God lives in us? We know because of the Spirit {\cf2\super [13]} that God gave us.

Revelation 21:7

Any person that wins the victory will receive all this. And I will be his God, and he will be my son.