Adoption

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 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.

• Luke 6:36 NT

  “Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

• Matthew 6:1-4 NT

  “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the…

• Matthew 6:6 NT

  But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:18 NT

  so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

• Proverbs 14:26 OT

  In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

• Numbers 6:27 OT

  “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”

• Isaiah 62:2 OT

  The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

• 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.’

• 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.

• Romans 8:17 NT

  and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Galatians 4:7 NT

  So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

• 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.

• Matthew 6:9 NT

  Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

• Genesis 48:5 OT

  Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:14 OT

  Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:16 OT

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:22 OT

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Exodus 2:10 OT

  The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

• Esther 2:7 OT

  He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

• Exodus 4:22 OT

  You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

• Hosea 11:1 OT

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

• Romans 9:4 NT

  who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

• 1 Chronicles 28:6 OT

  He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.