Question 34
What is adoption?
Adoption is an act of God's free grace,1 whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.2
Scripture
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1 John 3:1 [1]See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (ESV)
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John 1:12 [2]But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, (ESV)
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Romans 8:17 [2]and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (ESV)