Bible Verses About Adoption

and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

“Stop holding onto me,” Yeshua said to her, “because I haven’t yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”

so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, that is, all the Goyim who have been called by my name,”

The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God’s free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had — Avraham avinu for all of us.

This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.” Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence.

All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to bring you back again into fear; on the contrary, you received the Spirit, who makes us sons and by whose power we cry out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”).

The Spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of God;

and if we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah — provided we are suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him.

The creation waits eagerly for the sons of God to be revealed;

that it too would be set free from its bondage to decay and would enjoy the freedom accompanying the glory that God’s children will have.

and not only it, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we continue waiting eagerly to be made sons — that is, to have our whole bodies redeemed and set free.

because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers;

the people of Isra’el! They were made God’s children, the Sh’khinah has been with them, the covenants are theirs, likewise the giving of the Torah, the Temple service and the promises;

In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.

that is, to us, whom he called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?

As indeed he says in Hoshea, “Those who were not my people I will call my people; her who was not loved I will call loved;

and in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God!”

Therefore Adonai says, “‘Go out from their midst; separate yourselves; don’t even touch what is unclean. Then I myself will receive you.

In fact, I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters.’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”

Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.

Be assured, then, that it is those who live by trusting and being faithful who are really children of Avraham.

For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trusting faithfulness;

Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are seed of Avraham and heirs according to the promise.

but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was the norm,