Adoption

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Romans 4:16 NT

  For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of…

• Romans 4:17 NT

  As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

• Ephesians 1:5 NT

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

• Ephesians 1:6 NT

  to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

• Ephesians 1:11 NT

  We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

• 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:

• Galatians 4:4 NT

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

• Galatians 4:5 NT

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

• Hebrews 2:10 NT

  For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• Hebrews 2:13 NT

  Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

• 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.

• Hosea 2:23 OT

  I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

• Romans 9:24-26 NT

  us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.” “It will be that in the place where it…

• Ephesians 3:6 NT

  that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

• 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.

• 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.

• Romans 8:16 NT

  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

• Romans 8:14 NT

  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

• Romans 8:15 NT

  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!”

• Galatians 4:6 NT

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

• 1 John 3:1 NT

  See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

• John 20:17 NT

  Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

• Hebrews 2:11 NT

  For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

• Hebrews 2:12 NT

  saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”