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Adoption in Christ

God’s gracious act of receiving believers into His family and granting them the rights and privileges of children. Through union with Christ, they enjoy intimacy with God, an eternal inheritance, and the Spirit’s witness. Adoption flows from justification and regeneration.

Scope

God’s gracious act of receiving believers into His family and granting them the rights and privileges of children.

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God’s gracious act of receiving believers into His family and granting them the rights and privileges of children. Through union with Christ, they enjoy intimacy with God, an eternal inheritance, and the Spirit’s witness. Adoption flows from justification and regeneration.

Anchor keywords

  • Adoption in Christ
  • adoption
  • christ
  • granting
  • inheritance
  • intimacy
  • receiving
  • believers
  • children
  • enjoy
  • eternal
  • family

Scripture anchors

  • John 1:12–13
  • Romans 8:14–17
  • Galatians 4:4–7
  • Ephesians 1:5
  • 1 John 3:1–2
  • John 3:3–8
  • Titus 3:5–7
  • Ezekiel 36:26–27
  • James 1:18
  • 1 Peter 1:3

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