Romans 8:16

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The Spirit himself joins with our spirits to assure us that we are God’s children.

Cross References

1 John 4:13

Here’s how we know that we live in him and he lives in us: He has given us his Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 1:22

and he has put his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee that he’ll give us everything else he promised.

2 Corinthians 5:5

God made us for that very purpose, and he has given us the Holy Spirit as a down payment, a guarantee of what is still to come.

Ephesians 1:13

You also came to belong to Christ when you heard the message of truth, the good news about how you could be saved. When you believed, God stamped you with an official mark, the Holy Spirit that he promised.

Romans 8:26

In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don’t know what we should pray for, but the Spirit himself prays for us with groans that are too deep for words.

Ephesians 4:30

Do not grieve God’s Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the proof that you belong to God and that God will set you completely free one day.

2 Corinthians 1:12

With God’s help, we’ve acted toward everyone, and especially toward you, honorably and honestly. We can say that with pride and a clear conscience. We’ve depended on God’s grace and not on the world’s wisdom.

Romans 8:23

And that’s not all. We have the first signs of what the Spirit will give us fully, but we also are groaning inside as we wait for our adoption to be finalized.

1 John 5:10

Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts what God says about him. Whoever doesn’t believe what God says is calling him a liar by not believing what God has said about his Son.

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are those who make peace, because they will be called children of God.

Luke 20:36

They won’t die anymore, because they will be like the angels. They are God’s children, because they are given a new form of life when the dead rise.

John 1:12

But to everyone who did accept him and believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

Acts 5:32

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

Romans 8:14

All who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Romans 8:19

Everything God created is looking forward to the time when his children will appear in their full and final glory.

Romans 9:8

In other words, God’s children aren’t all those who are physically descended from Abraham. Rather, they’re the children God promised to him. Those are the ones who are considered to be Abraham’s children.

Romans 9:26

He also says, “Where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

2 Corinthians 6:18

And, “I’ll be a Father to you, and you’ll be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

Because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. This is the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father!”

1 John 3:1

See what great love the Father has given us: We’re even called children of God! And that’s what we really are. The world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We don’t know yet what we will be. But we know that when Christ appears, we’ll be like him, because we’ll see him as he really is.

1 John 3:10

Here’s how you can tell the difference between God’s children and the devil’s children. Anyone who doesn’t do what is right isn’t God’s child, and anyone who doesn’t love their brother or sister isn’t God’s child either.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive all this from me. I’ll be their God, and they’ll be my children.