Romans 8:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor 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.”

Matthew 5:9

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Luke 20:36

Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Romans 8:14

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the 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 9:26

“And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called children of the living God.”

Romans 9:8

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 descendants.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.

2 Corinthians 1:22

who has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

2 Corinthians 5:5

The one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a down payment.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Ephesians 1:13

In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:10

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 5:10

Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Revelation 21:7

Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.