Bible Verses About Adoption

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

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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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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.”
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.
18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
27 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.

Teachings on This Topic

New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life

Caller Questions & Discussion:Dr. Sheri discusses how many of us grew up in homes where there was sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and psychological abuse. Many people carry those wounds into adulthood, often still feeling powerless and helpless in relationships without realizing it.I am adopted; am I biblically obligated to have a relationship with my biological mother if I don’t want to?My 11-year-old granddaughter has developed a fear after getting sick and won’t take Benadryl because she thinks it’s poison. She was given a small dose of Prozac. What are your thoughts now that she’s off the medication but still very anxious?After 43 years of marriage, I’ve never felt that my wife loved me. What do you recommend?I lost my mom in October, and I’m an only child. We received an inheritance from her, but we were previously homeless and have now spent all of it. Where can I go to find clarity?I have a crystal meth addiction, and I feel like God is condemning me to hell. What can I do?

What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
Real Christian Families

With 6 million weekly listeners, John Fuller is co-host with Jim Daly for Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast Radio Show. Father to five adult children, plus one newly married and one adopted special needs, John has learned a lot in the mix with God's grace. John summarizes what he has learned in 30 years about God and family. He encourages all that, “With God's grace you can make it, and you can more than just make it, you can thrive.”“God’s going to equip me in those moments where I feel like I can’t do this. So many times I’ve prayed that. The Lord shows up. He gives peace. He gives grace. He gives understanding.”John Fuller speaks to the highs and lows of family life touching on insights from raising 6 children including one special needs adopted child in “What's the Focus?”For shows and more subscribe at parentcompass.tv/subscribe. Download the Parent Compass App.

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.
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.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
9 The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Teachings on This Topic

New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life

Caller Questions & Discussion:Dr. Sheri discusses how many of us grew up in homes where there was sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and psychological abuse. Many people carry those wounds into adulthood, often still feeling powerless and helpless in relationships without realizing it.I am adopted; am I biblically obligated to have a relationship with my biological mother if I don’t want to?My 11-year-old granddaughter has developed a fear after getting sick and won’t take Benadryl because she thinks it’s poison. She was given a small dose of Prozac. What are your thoughts now that she’s off the medication but still very anxious?After 43 years of marriage, I’ve never felt that my wife loved me. What do you recommend?I lost my mom in October, and I’m an only child. We received an inheritance from her, but we were previously homeless and have now spent all of it. Where can I go to find clarity?I have a crystal meth addiction, and I feel like God is condemning me to hell. What can I do?

What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
Real Christian Families

With 6 million weekly listeners, John Fuller is co-host with Jim Daly for Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast Radio Show. Father to five adult children, plus one newly married and one adopted special needs, John has learned a lot in the mix with God's grace. John summarizes what he has learned in 30 years about God and family. He encourages all that, “With God's grace you can make it, and you can more than just make it, you can thrive.”“God’s going to equip me in those moments where I feel like I can’t do this. So many times I’ve prayed that. The Lord shows up. He gives peace. He gives grace. He gives understanding.”John Fuller speaks to the highs and lows of family life touching on insights from raising 6 children including one special needs adopted child in “What's the Focus?”For shows and more subscribe at parentcompass.tv/subscribe. Download the Parent Compass App.

3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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.’
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.
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.
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.

Teachings on This Topic

New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life LIVE: May 14, 2026
New Life

Caller Questions & Discussion:Dr. Sheri discusses how many of us grew up in homes where there was sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and psychological abuse. Many people carry those wounds into adulthood, often still feeling powerless and helpless in relationships without realizing it.I am adopted; am I biblically obligated to have a relationship with my biological mother if I don’t want to?My 11-year-old granddaughter has developed a fear after getting sick and won’t take Benadryl because she thinks it’s poison. She was given a small dose of Prozac. What are your thoughts now that she’s off the medication but still very anxious?After 43 years of marriage, I’ve never felt that my wife loved me. What do you recommend?I lost my mom in October, and I’m an only child. We received an inheritance from her, but we were previously homeless and have now spent all of it. Where can I go to find clarity?I have a crystal meth addiction, and I feel like God is condemning me to hell. What can I do?

What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
What's the Focus? Full Interview with John Fuller, Daily Co-Host of Focus on the Family
Real Christian Families

With 6 million weekly listeners, John Fuller is co-host with Jim Daly for Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast Radio Show. Father to five adult children, plus one newly married and one adopted special needs, John has learned a lot in the mix with God's grace. John summarizes what he has learned in 30 years about God and family. He encourages all that, “With God's grace you can make it, and you can more than just make it, you can thrive.”“God’s going to equip me in those moments where I feel like I can’t do this. So many times I’ve prayed that. The Lord shows up. He gives peace. He gives grace. He gives understanding.”John Fuller speaks to the highs and lows of family life touching on insights from raising 6 children including one special needs adopted child in “What's the Focus?”For shows and more subscribe at parentcompass.tv/subscribe. Download the Parent Compass App.

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.
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.
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.