9 Bible Verses About Adoption
9 Bible verses about Adoption to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
to redeem those who lived under the law, so that we might be adopted as children.
What you received was not a spirit of slavery that would put you back under fear. You received the Spirit of adoption as children, and in the Spirit we call out, “Abba, Father!”
He marked us out beforehand to be adopted as his own sons and daughters through Jesus Christ. That was what he gladly willed,
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Consider the kind of love the Father has given us: we are called children of God, and we really are his children. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God, through faith.
so that his glorious grace would be praised, the grace he has freely given us in the Beloved.
And not creation alone. We ourselves, who have the Spirit as the first share of the harvest, also groan within ourselves while we long for our adoption as children, when our body will be redeemed.
“I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters,” declares the Lord Almighty.