Adoption From The Thematic Bible 2:
Adoption » Adoption of children:
Genesis 48:5: Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Genesis 15:3: And Abram said, “Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir.”
Exodus 2:10: The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
Esther 2:7: He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
Adoption » Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God
Deuteronomy 8:5: Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
2 Samuel 7:14: I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,
Proverbs 3:11-12: My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD Or loathe His reproof, For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
Finished for today.
God Bless!
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