Romans 8:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Cross References

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

Isaiah 56:5

I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.

Numbers 17:12

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are perishing; we are lost; all of us are lost!

Matthew 25:25

so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’

Mark 14:36

He said, “Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”

Luke 11:2

So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be revered as holy. May your kingdom come.

Luke 22:42

“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done.” [[

Luke 8:28

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,”

Luke 8:37

Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.

John 16:8

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Acts 16:29

The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”

Romans 8:16

it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 8:23

and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Ephesians 1:5

He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

2 Timothy 1:7

for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

Hebrews 2:15

and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.