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Want to know what the Bible says about Adoption? Here are 149 Bible verses about Adoption from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Samuel 7:14 NIV
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
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Isaiah 8:18 NIV
Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 63:8 NIV
He said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will be true to me”;
    and so he became their Savior.
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Numbers 6:27 NIV
“So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
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Romans 8:29 NIV
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
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Genesis 48:14 NIV
But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
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Exodus 4:22 NIV
Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,
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1 John 3:10 NIV
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
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Hosea 14:3 NIV
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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Romans 9:26 NIV
and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
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