Bible Verses About Adoption

that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

`But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who art in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who is in the heavens;

that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father, who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

`And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;

and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

`And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe--not much more you, O ye of little faith?

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

`Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf--a stone will he present to him?

and if a fish he may ask--a serpent will he present to him?

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

`Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear--let him hear.

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

who--not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but--of God were begotten.