What does the Bible say about adoption?

24 verses about adoption, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about adoption

Ephesians 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 4 votes
James 1:27 — 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. 4 votes
Matthew 18:5 — And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 3 votes
John 1:12 — 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: 3 votes
Acts 7:21 — And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 3 votes
Deuteronomy 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 2 votes
Esther 2:7 — 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. 2 votes
Psalms 27:10 — When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. 2 votes
Psalms 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 2 votes
Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 2 votes
Proverbs 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 2 votes
Isaiah 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 2 votes
Isaiah 40:31 — 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. 2 votes
Matthew 25:40 — 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. 2 votes
John 1:13 — Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 2 votes
John 14:18 — I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 2 votes
Romans 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 2 votes
Romans 8:15 — For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 2 votes
Romans 8:23 — And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 2 votes
Romans 9:8 — That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 2 votes
Galatians 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 2 votes
Galatians 4:5 — To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 2 votes
1 John 3:1 — 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. 2 votes
1 John 3:2 — 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. 2 votes

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Romans (4), Psalms (3), John (3), Isaiah (2), Matthew (2), Galatians (2), 1 John (2), Deuteronomy (1), Esther (1), Proverbs (1), Acts (1), Ephesians (1) and 1 more

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