Romans 8:13-16 ▼

13 For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.

14 For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

15 You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

16 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;