26 Bible Verses about Adoption

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

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.

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.

So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

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

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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;

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. And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure.

And now, thy two sons having been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee to Egypt, they are to me: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be to me as Reuben and Simeon.

And Israel will put forth his right hand, and will place upon Ephraim's head, and he the small; and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, attending to his hands wisely; for Manasseh was the first-born.

The messenger redeeming me from all evil, shall bless the youths; and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak and they shall be increased into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

And I gave to thee one shoulder over thy brethren, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And now, thy two sons having been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee to Egypt, they are to me: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be to me as Reuben and Simeon.

And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me.

And the child will become great, and she will bring him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he will be to her for a son. And she will call his name Moses; and she will say, Because I drew him out of the water.

And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.

And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises 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.

My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs: For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.

In that time, says Jehovah, I will be for God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to me for a people.

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.

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.

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

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

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

And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.

Whom he also called us, not only from the Jews, but also of the nations? As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved. 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.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly.

Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens. When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward. But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does: read more.
That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.

That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly.

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

And the nations shall see thy justice, and all kings thy glory: and a new name shall be called to thee which the mouth of Jehovah shall name it

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

And not only, but also they having the first fruits of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption as a son, the redemption of our body.

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.

And say thou to Pharaoh, So said Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel.

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

Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;

And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity from the land of the Canaanite; thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed. No eye spared upon thee to do one of these to thee, to pity upon thee; and thou wilt be east to the face of the field in loathing of thy soul in the day of bringing thee forth. read more.
And I shall pass by thee and see thee being trodden under foot in thy bloods, and saying to thee in thy bloods, Live; and saying to thee in thy bloods, Live.

Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all, (As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

And the daughter of Pharaoh will come down to wash at the river; and her maids going by the side of the river: and she will see the ark in the midst of the sedge, and she will send her maid and she will take it. And she will open and will see the child: and behold, the boy weeping: And she will have pity upon him, and will say, This from the children of the Hebrews. And his sister will say to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse from the Hebrew women, and she will suckle the child for thee? read more.
And Pharaoh's daughter will say to her, Go. And she will go and call the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter will say to her, Take this child and suckle it for me, and I will give thy wages And the woman will take the child and will suckle it And the child will become great, and she will bring him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he will be to her for a son. And she will call his name Moses; and she will say, Because I drew him out of the water.

And he having been exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for a son to herself.

By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be reckoned the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out. 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.

Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

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

Jesus says to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: and go thou to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God.

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will announce thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

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.

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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

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 as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:

And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law, That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

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.

Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy.

And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:

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.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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.

And now, thy two sons having been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee to Egypt, they are to me: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be to me as Reuben and Simeon.

And Israel will put forth his right hand, and will place upon Ephraim's head, and he the small; and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, attending to his hands wisely; for Manasseh was the first-born.

The messenger redeeming me from all evil, shall bless the youths; and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak and they shall be increased into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

And I gave to thee one shoulder over thy brethren, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size? read more.
And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith! Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you. Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. Sufficient for the day its evil.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened. Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone? read more.
And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent? If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

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

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.

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. Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.

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.

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

And the child will become great, and she will bring him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he will be to her for a son. And she will call his name Moses; and she will say, Because I drew him out of the water.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God:

And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.

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

And say thou to Pharaoh, So said Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel.

And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.

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

And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name:

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.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law, That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

And also they will not hear to their judges, for they committed fornications after other gods, and they will worship to them: they turned aside quickly from the way which their fathers went to hear the commands of Jehovah; they did not so.

And Gideon will make it into an ephod, and he will put in his city, Ophrah: and all Israel will commit fornication after it there: and it will be to Gideon and to his house for a snare.

And they will transgress against the God of their fathers, and they will commit fornication after the gods of the peoples of the land, which God destroyed from before them.

And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings.

And those escaping of you remembered me among the nations where they were carried captive there, because I was broken with their heart of a harlot, which turned away from me, and their eyes committing fornication after their blocks: and they loathed in their faces for the evils which they did for all their abominations.

All glory the king's daughter, in front: her clothing textures of gold.

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

She will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

Thy cheeks were beautiful with with rows, thy neck with strings of pearls.

Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God, for he put upon me the garments of salvation, and he clothed me with a robe of justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest with a turban, and as a bride will be adorned with her dress.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king brought me to his chambers: we will exult and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy breasts above wine: the upright loved thee.

Jehovah was seen to me from afar off; and I loved thee an eternal love: for this I drew thee in kindness.

I will draw them with the cords of man, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as those lifting up the yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will gently give them to eat

None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all to myself.

Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.

And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,