Bible Verses About Adoption

That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.

And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

Who hath predestinate vs, to be adopted through Iesus Christ in him selfe, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,

In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,

Nowe therefore ye are no more strangers and forreiners: but citizens with the Saintes, and of the houshold of God,

That the Gentiles should be inheriters also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel,

(Of whom is named the whole familie in heauen and in earth)

Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

That ye may be blamelesse, and pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

For vnto which of the Angels saide he at any time, Thou art my Sonne, this day begate I thee? and againe, I will be his Father, and he shalbe my Sonne?

For it became him, for whome are all these thinges, and by whome are all these things, seeing that hee brought many children vnto glory, that he should consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions.

For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Saying, I will declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Church will I sing praises to thee.

And againe, I will put my trust in him. And againe, Beholde, here am I, and the children which God hath giuen me.

And ye haue forgotten the consolation, which speaketh vnto you as vnto children, My sonne, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him.

For whom the Lord loueth, he chasteneth: and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth:

If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?

If therefore ye be without correction, whereof al are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.

Moreouer we haue had the fathers of our bodies which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: should we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, that we might liue?

For they verely for a few dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he chasteneth vs for our profite, that we might be partakers of his holinesse.

Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

Behold, what loue the Father hath giuen to vs, that we should be called the sonnes of God: for this cause this world knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him.

Dearely beloued, nowe are we the sonnes of God, but yet it is not made manifest what we shall be: and we know that when he shalbe made manifest, we shalbe like him: for we shall see him as he is.