Bible Verses about “adoption”

“But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”

“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”

“But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:”

“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”

“Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.”

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,”

“Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.”

“who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

“Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.”

“having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,”

“For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.”

“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”

“He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.”

“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,”

“He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.”

“So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”

“that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.”

“And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"”

“When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.”