adoption

Deuteronomy Chapter 10:18

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Esther Chapter 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Psalm Chapter 27:10

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalm Chapter 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm Chapter 68:6

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Psalm Chapter 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Proverbs Chapter 31:8

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Isaiah Chapter 1:17

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah Chapter 40:31

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Matthew Chapter 18:5

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

Matthew Chapter 25:40

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

John Chapter 1:12

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John Chapter 1:13

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

John Chapter 14:18

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Acts Chapter 7:21

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

Romans Chapter 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans Chapter 8:15

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Romans Chapter 8:16

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Romans Chapter 8:17

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Romans Chapter 8:18

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Romans Chapter 8:19

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans Chapter 8:23

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Romans Chapter 9:8

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Galatians Chapter 3:26

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians Chapter 4:4

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Galatians Chapter 4:5

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Galatians Chapter 4:6

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Galatians Chapter 4:7

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Ephesians Chapter 1:5

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

James Chapter 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 John Chapter 3:1

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John Chapter 3:2

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.