19 Bible Verses about Adoption

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

Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.

And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.

that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

having predestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,

that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles, as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved, and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

But when you pray enter into your private room, and having shut your door pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.

But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father in heaven. When, therefore, you give in charity, sound not a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward. But when you give in charity let not your left hand know what your right hand does, read more.
that your charity may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.

that you may not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.

that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on whom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

but being exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nourished him as her own son.

By faith Moses when he became a man refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

But I tell you, Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you; that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

Be therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Know, therefore, that those of faith, these are children of Abraham.

For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ;

Jesus said to her, Do not touch me; for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will declare thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the assembly will I sing to thee.

For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.

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

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

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,

but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Pray, therefore, thus; Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name;

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of heaven; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into store-houses; but your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature? read more.
And why are you anxious concerning clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they perform no hard labor, neither do they spin; but I tell you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, men of little faith? Be not anxious, therefore, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or with what shall we be clothed? For after all these things the gentiles seek; and your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first righteousness and his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you. Be not anxious, therefore, for to-morrow, for to-morrow will be anxious for its; sufficient for the day is its evil.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone? read more.
or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

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

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Most High; for he is good to the unthankful and evil. Be merciful, as your father is merciful;

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name, who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

and not for the nation only, but to bring together into one [body] all the children of God scattered abroad.

For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ;

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

and if I am raised on high from the earth I will draw all men to me.

Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil;

but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,