Bible Verses About Adoption

and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written--`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe--God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

And not only so , but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

that is, the children of the flesh--these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what is not My people--My people; and her not beloved--Beloved,

and it shall be--in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

know ye, then, that those of faith--these are sons of Abraham,

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise--heirs.

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,