Adoption

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Isaiah 43:6 OT

  I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

• Isaiah 43:7 OT

  everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

• Isaiah 63:8 OT

  For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

• Isaiah 63:16 OT

  For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

• Jeremiah 3:19 OT

  “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

• Jeremiah 31:9 OT

  They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 31:20 OT

  Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

• Hosea 1:9 OT

  He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

• Hosea 11:1 OT

  “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

• Matthew 5:9 NT

  Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

• Matthew 5:45 NT

  that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

• Matthew 13:43 NT

  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

• Luke 6:35 NT

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• John 1:12 NT

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

• John 1:13 NT

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

• John 11:52 NT

  and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

• Acts 15:17 NT

  that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’

• Romans 8:14-19 NT

  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself testifies with…

• Romans 8:21 NT

  that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

• Romans 8:29 NT

  For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

• Romans 9:8 NT

  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

• Romans 9:26 NT

  “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

• 2 Corinthians 6:17 NT

  Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

• Galatians 3:26 NT

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