ADOPTION

Passages on this topic · 78

• Genesis 15:3

  Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

• Genesis 48:5

  Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:14

  Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Exodus 2:5

  Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.

• Exodus 2:6

  She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

• Exodus 2:7

  Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:8

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

• Exodus 2:9

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

• Exodus 2:10

  The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

• Exodus 4:22

  You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

• Exodus 4:23

  and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me”; and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”

• Numbers 6:27

  “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”

• Deuteronomy 14:1

  You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

• Deuteronomy 26:18

  Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

• Deuteronomy 27:9

  Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silence, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 28:10

  All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.

• Deuteronomy 32:5

  They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

• Deuteronomy 32:6

  Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 1 Chronicles 22:10

  He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’

• 1 Chronicles 28:6

  He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Esther 2:7

  He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

• Proverbs 14:26

  In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

• Isaiah 8:18

  Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 43:6

  I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —

• Isaiah 43:7

  everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

• Isaiah 63:8

  For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

• Isaiah 63:16

  For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

• Jeremiah 3:19

  “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

• Jeremiah 31:9

  They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

• Hosea 1:9

  He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

• Hosea 11:1

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

• Matthew 5:9

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

• Matthew 5:45

  that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

• Matthew 13:43

  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• John 1:12

  But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

• John 1:13

  who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

• John 11:52

  and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

• Acts 7:21

  When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Romans 8:14

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

• Romans 8:15

  For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

• Romans 8:16

  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

• Romans 8:17

  and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Romans 8:18

  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

• Romans 8:19

  For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

• Romans 8:21

  that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

• Romans 8:29

  For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

• Romans 9:8

  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

• Romans 9:26

  “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

• 2 Corinthians 6:17

  Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

• Galatians 3:26

  For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

• Galatians 3:29

  If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

• Galatians 4:5

  that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

• Galatians 4:6

  And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

• Galatians 4:7

  So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

• Ephesians 1:5

  having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

• Ephesians 2:19

  So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

• Ephesians 3:6

  that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

• Ephesians 3:15

  from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

• Philippians 2:15

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Hebrews 1:5

  For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

• Hebrews 2:10

  For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• Hebrews 2:13

  Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

• Hebrews 11:24

  By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

• Hebrews 12:6

  For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

• Hebrews 12:7

  It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

• Hebrews 12:9

  Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

• 1 John 3:1

  See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

• 1 John 3:2

  Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

• 1 John 3:10

  In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

• 1 John 4:4

  You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

• Revelation 21:7

  He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.