Adoption

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

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.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. — read the full passage →

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!”

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. — read the full passage →

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

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

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

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and 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.

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

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

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

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.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

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

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

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. — read the full passage →

“But I said, ‘How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

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.

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.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

I will be his father, and he shall 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;

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

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 in the midst of the earth.”

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.

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.

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

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.

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

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:” so he was their Savior.

He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

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.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

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,

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” — read the full passage →

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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.”

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.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!” — read the full passage →

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. — read the full passage →

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: