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56 Bible verses about Adoption
I want to share something that's been on my heart lately. Jesus teaches us to care for the orphan, and it really makes you think about all the need out there. These kids, through no fault of their own, are facing so much hardship. It breaks my heart.
If you're able to help, even in a small way, don't hesitate. Showing mercy and kindness is so important. I truly believe God blesses those who open their hearts to those in need. When we care for a child who's been abandoned, it's like we're caring for Jesus himself. That's powerful.
Adoption is such a beautiful thing. Giving a child a loving home and family, when they haven't had that, is an incredible gift. You're literally giving them a chance at a better life, a chance to escape the heartache and hard times that so many orphans face.
As a child of God, you can share God's love with them, make a real difference in their life, and most importantly, show them the path to salvation. It's an amazing opportunity. Keep going, with God's help!
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”
He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –
Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.
When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.”
Now he was acting as the guardian of Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her as if she were his own daughter.
While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.
but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons.
But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
Micah said to him, “Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.”
I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children
(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) – if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’ and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’ Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed – yes, whom I made!
For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
For this reason I kneel before the Father,from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.
You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.
They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,