Definition of "sonship" [son•ship]

• The position or state of being a son. (noun)

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• "The assurance of our sonship is the best preparative for temptation."
• "Still the foundation of all sonship is in Jesus Christ."
• "The witness of the Spirit in the believer himself to his own sonship is not here expressed, but follows as a consequence of believing the witness of God to Jesus 'divine Sonship. believeth not God -- credits not His witness. made him a liar -- a consequence which many who virtually, or even avowedly, do not believe, may well startle back from as fearful blasphemy and presumption (1Jo 1: 10). believeth not the record -- Greek, "believeth not IN the record, or witness.""