Bible verses about Adoption
Verses about adoption, both in a family and in the family of God.
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:6Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
Isaiah 43:1Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Jeremiah 3:19But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
John 1:12I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:14For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Romans 8:16And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Romans 8:17Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 8:23But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4:4to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:5And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Galatians 4:6So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
Galatians 4:7He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Ephesians 1:5Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
Ephesians 2:19Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
1 John 3:1Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
1 John 3:2