Romans 8:14

Plain English Version

It is like this. God’s kids are those people that listen to his spirit and follow him.

Cross References

Matthew 5:9

Some people help other people to settle down, stop arguing, and agree with each other. God will tell those people, ‘You are my own kids.’ And they will be really happy.

John 1:12

But some people did want him. They believed in him, so God said they can join his family, and be his own kids.

Romans 8:19

It is like this, everything in the world is waiting for that time when God will set everything right and show everyone who his kids really are.

Romans 8:5

Some people just think about themselves, so they only do whatever makes them feel good. They let that bad part inside them be their boss, and they do whatever it tells them to do. But other people think about God and his spirit, and they do whatever the Holy Spirit tells them to do.

Romans 8:9

But I know that you aren’t like that any more. You haven’t let that bad part of you be your boss, but you have joined up with the Holy Spirit, and now he lives inside you. That’s right. If people don’t have the spirit of Jesus Christ in them, they don’t belong to him.

Galatians 3:26

It’s like this now. You all believe in Jesus Christ, so you are joined to him, and you are all God’s kids.

Galatians 4:5

And then he took the payback for all of us, the payback for the bad things we did, and he set us free. So God took us into his family to be his proper kids, and we don’t have to follow that law any more.

Galatians 4:6

And when we became God’s kids, he sent his son’s spirit to live right inside us. His spirit in us gets us to call out to God, “My Dad, you are my father.”

Galatians 5:16

So this is what I’m telling you, let God’s spirit control your lives, and you will not do any of those bad things that make you feel good.

Galatians 5:18

But if you let God’s spirit control you, you will do good things, and you will not need to have the Jewish law as your boss.

Ephesians 1:5

so he got Jesus to bring us into his family, and now we can be God’s own kids. God did that because it is what he really wanted to do.

Ephesians 5:9

You know, if people have God’s light in them, they live in a way that is good, right, and true.