19 Bible Verses about Adoption

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is. And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

As indeed he says in Hosea, Those who were no people of mine, I will call 'my People,' and her 'beloved' who was not beloved; on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

When you pray, go into your room and shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No, When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward. When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, read more.
so as to keep your alms secret; then your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.

so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord,

Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises;

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

then he was exposed, but Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Well then, you see that the real sons of Abraham are those who rely on faith.

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,'

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered,

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes! Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds? Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it? read more.
And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin, and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him! Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?' (pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that. Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above. So do not be troubled about to-morrow; to-morrow will take care of itself. The day's own trouble is quite enough for the day.

Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks. Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? read more.
Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you;

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God.

For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God.

it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God;

and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty. As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."

put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

It is far on in the night, the day is almost here; so let us drop the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of the light;

true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence,