Bible Verses About Adoption

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

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And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

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For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

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Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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

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But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

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To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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

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And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

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And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

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

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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

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

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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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