149 Bible Verses about Adoption
Want to know what the Bible says about Adoption? Here are 149 Bible verses about Adoption from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Ephesians 1:5 NIV
he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
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Galatians 4:5-7 NIV
5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
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John 1:12 NIV
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God —
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Romans 9:8 NIV
In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
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1 John 3:1 NIV
See what great love the Father has lavished on 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.
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Psalm 27:10 NIV
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me.
the Lord will receive me.
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Galatians 3:26 NIV
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,
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James 1:27 NIV
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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John 1:13 NIV
children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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Acts 7:21 NIV
When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
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Romans 8:15 NIV
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
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Romans 8:23 NIV
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
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1 John 3:2 NIV
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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Esther 2:7 NIV
Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
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John 1:12-13 NIV
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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Galatians 4:5 NIV
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
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Isaiah 49:15 NIV
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
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Ephesians 2:19 NIV
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,
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