53 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

And say thou to Pharaoh, So said Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel. And saying to thee, Send forth my son, and he shall save me: and shalt thou refuse to send him, behold me killing thy son, thy first-born.

And they put my name upon the sons of Israel and I will praise them.

And all the peoples of the earth saw that the name of Jehovah was called upon thee; and they were afraid of thee.

And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.

All being called by name: and I created him; for my glory I formed him; also I made him.

Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands,

And Moses will speak, and the priests, the Levites, to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, Israel; this day thou wert for a people to Jehovah thy God.

He acted wickedly to him; not his sons their blot: A generation perverted and crooked. To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men.

He shall build a house to my name; and he shall be to me for son, and I to him for father; and I prepared the throne of his kingdom over Israel even to forever.

And he will say to me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my enclosures: for I chose in him to me for son, and I will be to him for father.

In the fear of Jehovah the trust of strength, and to his sons a refuge.

Behold me and the children which Jehovah gave to me for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of armies dwelling in mount Zion.

Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth;

For thou our Father, for Abraham knew us not, and Israel will not recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father redeeming us; thy name from eternity.

And he will say, Surely they my people, sons that will not lie: and he will be to them for Saviour.

And I said, How shall I place thee among the sons, and I will give to thee a land of desire, an inheritance of glory of the armies of nations? And saying, Ye shall call to me, My father; and ye shall rot turn back from after me.

In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.

Is Ephraim a precious son to me? if a child of delights? for whenever my speaking against him, remembering, I shall remember him yet; for this the bowels were put in motion to me compassionating, I will compassionate him, says Jehovah.

And he will say; Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I will not be to you. And the number of the sons of Israel was as the sand of the sea which shall not be measured and shall not be numbered: and it was in the place which it shall be said to them, Ye are not my people, and it shall be said to them, Ye the sons of the living God.

When Israel was a child, and I loved him, and I called for my son out of Egypt

Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God.

So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.

Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.

And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name: They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And not for the nation alone, but that also the children of God, scattered, should be gathered into one.

So that they remaining of men might seek out the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, making all these.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God:read more.
And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.

That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

For to which of the angels once said he, Thou art my Son, I have this day begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for Father, and he shall be to me for Son?

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you. And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

And if ye of Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,

Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;

For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

Of whom all the family in the heavens and upon earth is named,

That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

For it became him, for whom all things, and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the chief of their salvation by sufferings. For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me.

For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives. If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not. Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.

Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.

He conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be son to me.