Bible Verses About Adoption Into God’s Family

When we trust in Jesus, we are reborn into God’s family. We call the Almighty One Father as He cares for us with profound affection. The Spirit within assures our adoption, putting filial love in our hearts for our heavenly Parent. Though once excluded as unwanted strangers, now we belong through divine choice.

This undeserved adoption shapes our identity and changes the trajectory of our lives. We inherit blessings promised to Christ the Son, co-heirs positioned to receive the full riches of God’s kingdom. Consider what love the Father has given that we should be named His offspring! Therefore, as recipients of such mercy, we walk together as one family unified in Christ.

As adopted children we represent our Father in how we live and treat others. Our love reflects His heart, our characters display His image, our deeds make His goodness visible. All who thirst for belonging can come to the household of God. Where once we felt abandoned and alone, now wedwell surrounded by siblings, watched over by a Father who calls us His own. What a privilege is this adoption through faith into the family of the King!

Dear friends, the remarkable truth of Scripture is that God adopts us as His beloved children. Despite our sinfulness, He brings us into His household through faith in Christ’s redemptive work. Now let’s explore Bible verses below that illuminate this incredible gift.

What does the Bible say about spiritual adoption?

Romans 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”

Galatians 4:5
“To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons”

Ephesians 1:5
“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will”

1 John 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”

How does adoption into God’s family change our identity?

Galatians 4:4-5
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons”

John 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”

Romans 8:14
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”

Ephesians 2:19
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, of the household of God”

What blessings come with being adopted by God?

Ephesians 1:11
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”

Romans 8:17
“If children, then heirs; heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together”

1 Peter 1:3-4
“Blessed be the God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you”

How should adopted children of God treat one another?

Romans 12:10
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another”

Ephesians 4:32
“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you”

1 John 4:11-12
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, his love is perfected in us”

Galatians 5:13
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another”

How does adoption impact our relationship with God?

Romans 8:16
“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”

Galatians 3:26
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus”

Ephesians 5:1
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children”

How does earthly adoption reflect spiritual adoption?

Ephesians 1:4-5
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will”

Romans 8:23
“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”

James 1:27
“Pure religion undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world”