20 Bible Verses About Being a Child of God

A person becomes a child of God by receiving Christ and believing in his name. John 1:12 calls this a right Christ gives, and Paul calls the same change adoption (Galatians 4:5, Romans 8:15, Ephesians 1:5). Paul’s word for adoption is huiothesia, adoption as sons. He uses it of believers in Romans 8:15, Romans 8:23, Galatians 4:5 and Ephesians 1:5, and of Israel in Romans 9:4: “Theirs is the adoption to sonship.” In the Old Testament, Israel as a people…