Children of God and Righteous Living
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The term "Children of God" refers to those who have been spiritually reborn through faith in Jesus Christ, becoming part of God's family. This concept is central to Christian theology and is rooted in the New Testament. In the Gospel of John, it is written, "But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12). This passage underscores the belief that becoming a child of God is not a result of natural descent or human effort, but a divine act of grace through faith.

The Apostle Paul further elaborates on this in his epistles. In Romans 8:14-17, Paul writes, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, 'Abba! Father!' The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him" . This passage highlights the intimate relationship between believers and God, characterized by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the assurance of inheritance alongside Christ.

Being a child of God also implies a transformation in identity and behavior. In 1 John 3:1-2, it is stated, "See what great love the Father has lavished on 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. Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is" . This passage emphasizes the love of God and the future hope of believers, who are called to live in a manner that reflects their new identity.

Righteous Living

Righteous living is a fundamental aspect of the Christian life, reflecting a commitment to live according to God's standards as revealed in Scripture. It involves both moral integrity and ethical conduct, rooted in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The Bible consistently calls believers to pursue righteousness as an expression of their faith and devotion.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" (Matthew 5:6). This beatitude highlights the deep desire and pursuit of righteousness that characterizes the life of a believer. Righteous living is not merely about external compliance with rules but an internal transformation that aligns one's heart and actions with God's will.

The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Romans, writes, "Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness" (Romans 6:13). This exhortation underscores the believer's responsibility to reject sin and dedicate themselves wholly to God, allowing His righteousness to be manifested in their lives.

Moreover, righteous living is closely associated with the fruit of the Spirit, as described in Galatians 5:22-23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law" . These virtues are evidence of the Holy Spirit's work in a believer's life, producing a character that reflects God's righteousness.

The pursuit of righteousness is also linked to the hope of eternal life. In 1 Timothy 6:11-12, Paul instructs Timothy, "But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses" . This passage encourages believers to actively pursue righteousness as part of their spiritual journey, with the assurance of eternal life as their ultimate reward.
Subtopics

Children

Children and Death

Children and Heaven

Children and Marriage

Children and Parents

Children and Prayer

Children and Sin

Children are a Gift from God

Children are Capable of Glorifying God

Children As a Blessing

Children Being a Blessing

Children Being Obedient

Children Born out of Wedlock

Children Gods Gift

Children Going to Heaven

Children Going to Hell

Children Growing Up

Children Having Children

Children in Answer to Prayer: Hannah

Children in Answer to Prayer: Isaac

Children in Answer to Prayer: Leah

Children in Answer to Prayer: Rachel

Children in Answer to Prayer: To Abraham

Children in Answer to Prayer: Zacharias

Children Leaving Home

Children Leaving Their Parents

Children Murdering Parents

Children Obeying Their Parents

Children of Eden

Children of God

Children of God's People, Holy

Children of God's People, Interested in the Promises

Children of Israel

Children of Ministers

Children of the Bridechamber

Children of the East

Children of the Righteous, Blessed of God

Children out of Wedlock

Children Responsibility

Children Returning Home

Children Salvation

Children Sinning

Children were Named: After Relatives

Children were Named: from Circumstances Connected With Their Birth

Children were Named: from Remarkable Events

Children were Named: Numerous, Considered an Especial Blessing

Children were Named: Often by God

Children were Named: Often Numerous

Children were Named: Sometimes Born when Parents Were Old

Children were Required: To Attend to Instruction

Children were Required: To Honor Their Parents

Children were Required: To Respect the Aged

Children were Required: To Submit to Discipline

Children Who Murder

Children: A Blessing

Children: Abijah

Children: Alienated, Ishmael, to Gratify Sarah

Children: Amusements of

Children: An Heritage from the Lord

Children: Anxiety of the Jews For

Children: Bastard, Excluded from the Privileges of the Congregation

Children: Blessed by Jesus

Children: Bound by Covenants of Parents

Children: Casting out of Weak Alluded To

Children: Caused to Pass Through Fire

Children: Character of, Known by Conduct

Children: Children in the Temple

Children: Christ Was an Example To

Children: Circumcised on the Eighth Day

Children: Commandments To

Children: Correction of

Children: Could Demand Their Portion During Father's Life

Children: Counsel of Parents To

Children: David

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents by Elisha

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents by Jesus

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: David's Child by Uriah's Wife

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: Firstborn of Egypt

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: Healing of

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: Raised from the Dead by Elijah

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: Sons of Eli

Children: Death of, As a Judgment Upon Parents: Sons of Saul

Children: Dedicated to God in Infancy: Samson

Children: Dedicated to God in Infancy: Samuel

Children: Destruction of, a Punishment

Children: Difference Made Between Male and Female, in Mosaic Law

Children: Early Piety of Jeremiah

Children: Early Piety of John the Baptist

Children: Early Piety of Samuel

Children: Edict to Murder of Herod

Children: Edict to Murder of Jehu

Children: Edict to Murder of Pharaoh

Children: Elihu

Children: Esau

Children: False Instruction of

Children: Female: Inherited Property in Default of Sons

Children: Female: Taken Care of by Nurses

Children: Female: Usefully Employed

Children: Figurative

Children: Fondness and Care of Mothers For

Children: Frequently Bore the Curse of Parents

Children: Future State of

Children: God's Care of

Children: Good: Attend to Parental Teaching

Children: Good: Character of, Illustrates Conversion

Children: Good: Honor the Aged

Children: Good: Illustrative of a Teachable Spirit

Children: Good: Know the Scriptures

Children: Good: Make Their Parents' Hearts Glad

Children: Good: Obey Parents

Children: Good: Partake of the Promises of God

Children: Good: Shall be Blessed

Children: Good: Show Love to Parents

Children: Good: Take Care of Parents

Children: Good: The Lord is With

Children: Good: Their Obedience to Parents is Well Pleasing to God

Children: Grief Occasioned by Loss of

Children: Illegitimate: Despised by Their Brethren

Children: Illegitimate: Excluded from the Congregation

Children: Illegitimate: had No Inheritance

Children: Illegitimate: Not Cared for by the Father

Children: Illegitimate: Sometimes Sent Away With Gifts

Children: Inhuman Practice of offering to Idols

Children: Instance of, Leah and Rachel

Children: Instruction of

Children: Involved in Guilt of Parents

Children: Isaac

Children: Jehoshaphat

Children: Jephthah's Daughter

Children: Jeremiah

Children: Jesus

Children: Jewish Children

Children: Job

Children: John

Children: Joseph

Children: Josiah

Children: Judah

Children: Love of, for Parents of Ruth

Children: Love of, for Parents: Jesus

Children: Male: Birth of, Announced to the Father by a Messenger

Children: Male: If First Born, Belonged to God and Were Redeemed

Children: Male: Inherited the Possessions of Their Father

Children: Male: Received the Blessing of Their Father Before his Death

Children: Male: Under the Care of Tutors, Till They Came of Age

Children: Male: Usefully Employed

Children: Minors

Children: Mode of Giving Public Instruction To

Children: Moses

Children: Mostly Nursed by the Mothers

Children: Named at Circumcision

Children: Not Punished for Parents' Sake

Children: Not to Have: A Reproach in Israel

Children: Not to Have: Considered an Affliction

Children: Nurses For

Children: Obadiah

Children: Often Given in Answer to Prayer

Children: Often Prayed For

Children: Often Wicked and Rebellious

Children: Partiality Among, Forbidden

Children: Partiality of Parents Among: Jacob for Joseph

Children: Partiality of Parents Among: Rebekah for Jacob

Children: Power of Parents Over, During the Patriarchal Age

Children: Prayer in Behalf of

Children: Promised to the Righteous

Children: Promises and Assurances To

Children: Prosperity of, Greatly Depended on Obedience of Parents

Children: Punishment of

Children: Rebellious, Punished by the Civil Power

Children: Resignation Manifested at Loss of

Children: Ruth

Children: Sacrificed

Children: Samson

Children: Samuel

Children: Saul

Children: Share Benefits of Covenant Privileges Guaranteed to Parents

Children: Shem and Japheth

Children: should Attend to Parental Teaching

Children: should be Brought Early to the House of God

Children: should be Brought to Christ

Children: should be Instructed in the Ways of God

Children: should be Judiciously Trained

Children: should Fear God

Children: should Fear Parents

Children: should Honor Parents

Children: should Honor the Aged

Children: should not Imitate Bad Parents

Children: should Obey God

Children: should Obey Parents

Children: should Remember God

Children: should Take Care of Parents

Children: Sold for Debt

Children: Sold in Marriage, Law Concerning

Children: Solomon

Children: Sometimes Devoted Their Property to Avoid Supporting Parents

Children: Symbolical of the Regenerated

Children: Taught to Walk

Children: The Gift of God

Children: The Israelitish Maid, Captive in Syria

Children: Timothy

Children: Treatment of, After Birth, Noticed

Children: Treatment of, at Birth

Children: Tutors and Governors For

Children: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

Children: Weaning of

Children: Weaning of, a Time of Joy and Feasting

Children: Wicked

Children: Wicked: Abijam

Children: Wicked: Absalom

Children: Wicked: Adonijah

Children: Wicked: Adrammelech and Sharezer

Children: Wicked: Ahaziah

Children: Wicked: Amon

Children: Wicked: Canaan

Children: Wicked: Children at Beth-El

Children: Wicked: Eli's Sons

Children: Wicked: Ishmael

Children: Wicked: Lot's Daughters

Children: Wicked: Samaritans' Descendants

Children: Wicked: Samuel's Sons

Children: Wicked: Sennacherib's Sons

Children: Worship, Attend Divine

Childrens Ministry

Daycare

Good Children: Adduced As a Motive for Submission to God

Good Children: Attend to Parental Teaching

Good Children: Children in the Temple

Good Children: Daniel

Good Children: David

Good Children: Esther

Good Children: Honor the Aged

Good Children: Illustrative of a Teachable Spirit

Good Children: Isaac

Good Children: Jephthah's Daughter

Good Children: Job

Good Children: John the Baptist

Good Children: Joseph

Good Children: Josiah

Good Children: Know the Scriptures

Good Children: Make Their Parents' Hearts Glad

Good Children: Obadiah

Good Children: Obey Parents

Good Children: Observe the Law of God

Good Children: Partake of the Promises of God

Good Children: Samson

Good Children: Samuel

Good Children: Shall be Blessed

Good Children: Show Love to Parents

Good Children: Spirit of, a Requisite for the Kingdom of Heaven

Good Children: Take Care of Parents

Good Children: The Lord is With

Good Children: Their Obedience to Parents is Well Pleasing to God

Good Children: Timothy

Minors: Legal Status of

Surrogacy

Wicked Children are Proud

Wicked Children are Void of Understanding

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents are a Calamity to Them

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents are a Grief to Them

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents: Bring Reproach on Them

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents: Curse Them

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents: Despise Them

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents: Despised Their Elders

Wicked Children with Regard to Parents: Hearken not to Them

Wicked Children: Absalom

Related Terms

Iniquitously (6 Occurrences)

Perversely (15 Occurrences)

Acted (98 Occurrences)

Pervert (18 Occurrences)

Dealt (130 Occurrences)

Plead (64 Occurrences)

Supplication (71 Occurrences)

Omri (16 Occurrences)

Repent (74 Occurrences)

Sinned (156 Occurrences)

Corrupt (59 Occurrences)

Captive (123 Occurrences)

Wicked (476 Occurrences)

Wickedness (232 Occurrences)

Violate (14 Occurrences)

Vanity (100 Occurrences)

Vanities (14 Occurrences)

Offence (27 Occurrences)

Offend (24 Occurrences)

Loftily (4 Occurrences)

Godlessness (3 Occurrences)

Well (2882 Occurrences)

Wanton (20 Occurrences)

Immorally (2 Occurrences)

Flatteries (3 Occurrences)

Faithfully (27 Occurrences)

Fellows (30 Occurrences)

Flattery (11 Occurrences)

Righteously (22 Occurrences)

Result (73 Occurrences)

Exploits (8 Occurrences)

Disgraceful (17 Occurrences)

Departing (20 Occurrences)

Defileth (12 Occurrences)

Desolations (18 Occurrences)

Misrepresent (2 Occurrences)

Perverteth (7 Occurrences)

Purged (19 Occurrences)

Persist (10 Occurrences)

Plagued (10 Occurrences)

Preceded (6 Occurrences)

Blandishments (3 Occurrences)

Bethink (4 Occurrences)

Behaved (21 Occurrences)

Broughtest (17 Occurrences)

Counsellor (16 Occurrences)

Captors (9 Occurrences)

Counselor (19 Occurrences)

Conquerors (4 Occurrences)

Abominations (81 Occurrences)

Allied (13 Occurrences)

Arguing (12 Occurrences)

Argue (21 Occurrences)

Amiss (8 Occurrences)

Acteth (8 Occurrences)

Seduce (8 Occurrences)

Spotless (10 Occurrences)

Swept (43 Occurrences)

Vile (59 Occurrences)

Change (109 Occurrences)

Violated (23 Occurrences)

Guest (24 Occurrences)

Resist (23 Occurrences)

Renown (24 Occurrences)

Refined (26 Occurrences)

Ahazi'ah (33 Occurrences)

Condemnation (30 Occurrences)

Acting (102 Occurrences)

Action (21 Occurrences)

Encouraged (37 Occurrences)

Precepts (40 Occurrences)

Display (30 Occurrences)

Insight (39 Occurrences)

Oven (22 Occurrences)

Surety (21 Occurrences)

Mock (43 Occurrences)

Gotten (38 Occurrences)

Falsehood (107 Occurrences)

Firmly (47 Occurrences)

Children of God
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