Bible Verses About Adoption

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 02/25/2021
Bible Verses About Adoption

What does the Bible say about Adoption? - Top Scripture Quotes

Adoption is a beautiful reflection of God's love. While we are all created as God's children, in His image, we can relate to being adopted as we return to Father's love. The Bible tells us that true religion is taking care of orphans. Those who choose to adopt often experience a stressful and trying process. We hope these Bible verses will bring comfort and encouragement to those in the adoption process and those who are celebrating a completed adoption!

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1 Samuel 1:27

27 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.
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2 Corinthians 6:18

18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
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Deuteronomy 10:18

18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
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Hosea 14:3

3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
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Isaiah 40:31

Hope In The Lord - Isaiah 40:31
31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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James 1:27

James 1:27
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Jeremiah 29:11

Trust God
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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Matthew 25:40

Every life is worth the same to GOD, PRICELESS! - Matthew 25:40
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
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Proverbs 13:12

12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
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Psalms 82:3

3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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Psalms 146:9

9 The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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Psalms 68:5-6

5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God sets the lonely in families,he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
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Proverbs 31:8-9

8 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
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John 1:12-13

12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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Galatians 4:4-5

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
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Romans 8:14-17

We Cry Abba, Father
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Psalms 10:14-18

Psalm 10:14
14 But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
17 You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
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