19 Bible Verses about Adoption

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen!

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen? Just as he says in Hosea, "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, And her who was not beloved, my beloved, And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."

But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get! But when you give to charity, your own left hand must not know what your right hand is doing, read more.
so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

so that no one may see that you are fasting, except your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret, will reward you.

So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, And all the heathen who are called by my name, Says the Lord,

For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed.

More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us; as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

When he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors, so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

So you see, the real descendants of Abraham are the men of faith.

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

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, and say, "I will tell your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

And because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the spirit of his Son, with the cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law, to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.

This, therefore, is the way you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered!

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they? But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life? read more.
Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin, and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them. But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry and say, 'What shall we have to eat?' or 'What shall we have to drink?' or 'What shall we have to wear?' For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this. But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides. So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Let each day be content with its own ills.

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you. For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens. Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? read more.
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.

For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too.

But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked. You must be merciful, just as your Father is.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called God's sons!

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons.

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children,

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

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty." So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law, to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

and if I am lifted up from the ground, I will draw all men to myself."

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

but we who belong to the day must be composed, wearing faith and love for a coat of mail, and helmeted with the hope of salvation.

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left,