Adoption

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Romans 8:19 NT

  For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

• Romans 8:23 NT

  Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

• 1 John 3:2 NT

  Beloved, now we are children of God. 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.

• Deuteronomy 8:5 OT

  You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

• 2 Samuel 7:14 OT

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• Proverbs 3:11 OT

  My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

• Proverbs 3:12 OT

  for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

• Hebrews 12:5-11 NT

  You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son…

• Jeremiah 31:1 OT

  “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

• 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.

• 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.

• 2 Corinthians 7:1 NT

  Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• Philippians 2:15 NT

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• 1 John 3:3 NT

  Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

• Matthew 5:44 NT

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• 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 5:48 NT

  Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

• Ephesians 5:1 NT

  Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

• Matthew 6:25-34 NT

  Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky, that they…

• Matthew 5:16 NT

  Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 7:7-11 NT

  “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for…

• Matthew 5:9 NT

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

• Matthew 6:14 NT

  “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.