Bible Verses About Adoption

And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.

So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.

But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of Ephraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses, who was the elder, changing his hands.

The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.

I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.

And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.

And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:

And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God:

And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.

They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

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

And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

And he had brought up his brother's daughter Edissa, who by another name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and was exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for his daughter.

My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him:

For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.