53 Bible Verses about Spiritual Adoption

You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn, and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

"So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."

All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'"

You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

and the LORD has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.'

He said to me, 'Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

In the fear of the LORD is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Behold, I and the children whom God has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

I will tell the north, 'Give them up.' and tell the south, 'Do not hold them back. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth?

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:" so he was their Savior.

"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations.' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.'"

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," says the LORD.

He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

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

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

that the rest of mankind may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,' says the Lord, who makes these things

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba. Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;read more.
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

For whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who does not love his brother.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.