Bible Verses about “adoption”

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“¶ ‹I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.›”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:”

“‹And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done› [it] ‹unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done› [it] ‹unto me.›”

“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”

“‹And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.›”

“¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”

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

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,”

“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

“The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”

“He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.”

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,”

“And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.”

“Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”

“To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”

“And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.”