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Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

KJV

ὅσοι γὰρ πνεύματι θεοῦ ἄγονται, οὗτοι υἱοὶ εἰσιν θεοῦ.

Greek NT

Quicumque enim Spiritu Dei aguntur, ii sunt filii Dei.

Vulgate

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

ASV

For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄγω
ago
verb · 70×
ὅσος
osos
correlative · 108×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ | Treg: υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ | WH/NIV: υἱοὶ θεοῦ εἰσιν | RP: εἰσιν υἱοὶ θεοῦ
  • υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ — SBLGNT
  • υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ — Tregelles
  • υἱοὶ θεοῦ εἰσιν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • εἰσιν υἱοὶ θεοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

16 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§259Being a work at once common and personal, the whole divine economy makes known both what is proper to the divine persons, and their one divine nature. Hence the whole Christian life is a communion with each of the divine persons, without in any way separating them. Everyone who glorifies the Father does so through the Son in the Holy Spirit; everyone who follows Christ does so …
§1831The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David.109 They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path.110 For all who are …
§1996Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.46
…and 1 more from this source.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 15.—That Everything Which the Grace of God Does in the Way of Rescuing Us from the Inveterate Evils in Which We are Sunk, Pertains to the Future World, in Which All Things are Made New. Nevertheless, in the “heavy yoke that is laid upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother’s womb to the day that they return to the mother of all things,” there …
§56If we examine closely this divine principle of life and power given by Christ, insofar as it constitutes the very source of every gift and created grace, we easily perceive that it is nothing else than the Holy spirit, the Paraclete, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and who is called in a special way, the "Spirit of Christ" or the "Spirit of the Son."[100] For it was b…
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. This is the pinnacle of the epistle. Calvin shows the golden chain of salvation: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, glorification. The Spirit of adoption enables believers to cry Abba, Father. All things work together for good to them that love God. If God be for us, who can be against…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
Do the Gifts differ from the virtues? The necessity of the Gifts Are the Gifts habits? Which, and how many are they? Are the Gifts connected? Do they remain in heaven? Their comparison with one another Their comparison with the virtues Article 1. Whether the Gifts differ from the virtues? Objection 1. It would seem that the gifts do not differ from the virtues. For Gregory comm…
What is the eternal law? Is it known to all? Is every law is derived from it? Are necessary things subject to the eternal law? Are natural contingencies subject to the eternal law? Are all human things subject to it? Article 1. Whether the eternal law is a sovereign type [ratio] existing in God? Objection 1. It would seem that the eternal law is not a sovereign type existing in…
The altogether Christian is one who has been born again, whose heart has been truly changed by the power of God. He does not merely profess Christ with his lips but possesses Christ in his heart. He loves God not from fear of punishment alone but from a genuine love for God's character and holiness. His obedience flows from an inward principle of new life.
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father i…

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:1 — Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
  • 1John 3:1 — Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 2Cor 1:22 — Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • 2Cor 13:14 — The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
  • Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
  • Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
  • Eph 5:9 — (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
  • Ezek 36:27 — And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
  • Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 4:6 — And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
  • Gal 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • Gal 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
  • Heb 2:10 — For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
  • Isa 48:16 — Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
  • John 1:12 — But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
  • John 1:12 — But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
  • John 20:17 — Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
  • Matt 4:1 — Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
  • Matt 5:9 — Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
  • Matt 23:9 — And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
  • Prov 8:20 — I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
  • Ps 25:5 — Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
  • Ps 143:10 — Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • Ps 143:10 — Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • Rev 21:7 — He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
  • Rom 5:5 — And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
  • Rom 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:5 — For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:9 — But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
  • Rom 8:16 — The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
  • Rom 8:19 — For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
  • Rom 9:8 — That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.