Bible Verses About Adoption

Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

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

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.