Bible Verses About Adoption- 10 Amazing Scriptures
Bible Passages and Quotes Related to Adoption
All Christians have been adopted as children of God and freed from the law. To adopt a child is to follow the lead of God who has adopted so many. There are several examples of adoption in the Bible including Moses. Adoption of children is a wonderful thing and God directs us to take care of the children and welcome them in. There is no better way to welcome a child in then to adopt him or her. I pray these Bible verses about adoption will be heart warming and inspirational to you today. Feel free to use this topical study as a Bible devotional, Sunday School lesson or just as a Bible memory tool. Please add any of your favorite Bible verses about adoption to the comments so this becomes a better resource to families and individuals that find it.
John 1:12 - #1 Adoption Verse- All who believer are adopted as children of God
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
Romans 8:14-16 - #2 Bible Verse About Adoption-The Holy Spirit
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father."For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children.
Galatians 4:4-6 - # 3 Scripture On Adoption- Freedom from the Law
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, "Abba, Father."
James 1:27 - #4 Bible Verse on Adoption- Caring for the Orphans
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
Additional Scriptures About Children
Psalm 68:5-6 - #5 Adoption Scripture Verse- God the Father
Father to the fatherless, defender of widows-
this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
God places the lonely in families;
he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.
But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Matthew 18:5 - #6 Bible Verse About Adoption- Welcoming a Child
"And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me.
John 11:52 - #7 Bible Passage on Adoption- All are Welcome
And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world
1 John 3:1-2 - #8 Bible Scripture on Adoption- God's Children
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know him. Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.
Exodus 2:10 - #9 Adoption Bible Verse- Adoption of Moses
Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses, for she explained, "I lifted him out of the water."
Esther 2:7 - #10 Bible Verse on Adoption- Adoption of Esther
This man had a very beautiful and lovely young cousin, Hadassah, who was also called Esther. When her father and mother died, Mordecai adopted her into his family and raised her as his own daughter.
Sources:
They Holy Bible, New Living Translation
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Post a CommentMore apparent are the stories that are also cited by such prosyletizers, namely those of the prophets Joseph and Moses (pbut) and their "adoption" by others. As usual, this is done without context, focusing only on the act itself—they are the fortunate chosen ones. But the context is much more revealing, both in the Bible as well as in the Qur'an, since their re-unification with their true families is the central focus of both stories. Furthermore, and likewise ignored by adoption revivalists, is that each and every invocation concerning the "fatherless" in the Bible also contains within the same passage a call to care for widows and others who are unable to sustain themselves. Would not a logical conclusion of this be that the expectant mother—especially if she be single, or widowed—be afforded this same zealous care and protection?
In light of the evangelical push for adoption and its ramifications in supply countries, it becomes important to point out something on the purely linguistic level concerning languages of the Bible and their translation. I returned to my birth country of Lebanon six years ago, and have been researching my adoption through a Catholic charitable organization since then. Learning Arabic, and reading Qur'an in Arabic, has given me an idea of what Aramaic might have been like in a purely conceptual sense, both being Semitic languages of the same region. Furthermore, Levantine Arabic differs from Standard Arabic in its use of Aramaic and Syriac words. I can pretty much say that the word used for the modern-day idea of "adoption" is a conceptual back formation from the English or the French, or is a completely metaphoric use (it also carries the meaning similar to the English "to start using", as in "cell phone adoption").
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