Adoption
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Adoption (5 Occurrences)
...Adoption represents the new relations into which the believer is introduced by
justification, and the privileges connected therewith, viz., an interest in ...
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Adopted (10 Occurrences)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Adopt. 2. (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an
adopted son, citizen, country, word. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Church (110 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHURCH. church: I. PRE-CHRISTIAN HISTORY OF THE
TERM II. ITS ADOPTION BY JESUS III. ... II. Its Adoption by Jesus. ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/church.htm - 89k

Knee (12 Occurrences)
... child receives its first care. Three times in Genesis the knees appear
in connection with primitive adoption customs. In 30:3 a ...
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Kneel (10 Occurrences)
... child receives its first care. Three times in Genesis the knees appear
in connection with primitive adoption customs. In 30:3 a ...
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Parousia
... Consequently, the adoption by the Greek-speaking Christians of a word that already
contained full regal and even Divine concepts was perfectly natural. ...
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Sacraments
... It is in the writings of Tertullian (end of 2nd and beginning of 3rd century) that
we find the first evidence of the adoption of the word as a technical term ...
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Trumpets (52 Occurrences)
... This need not mean that the observance of the 1st (or 10th) of Tishri was late,
but only that the final adoption of the day into Israel's official calendar ...
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Nero
... His name was originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus but after his adoption into
the Claudian gens by the emperor Claudius, he became Nero Claudius Caesar ...
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Feast (209 Occurrences)
... This need not mean that the observance of the 1st (or 10th) of Tishri was late,
but only that the final adoption of the day into Israel's official calendar ...
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Election (6 Occurrences)
... Men are elected "to salvation," "to the adoption of sons," "to be holy and without
blame before him in love" (2 Thessalonians 2:13; Galatians 4:4, 5; Ephesians ...
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Slavery (31 Occurrences)
... In view of the fact that adoption, the adrogatio of the Roman law, was unknown both
to Biblical and Talmudic law (see Jewish Encyclopedia, under the word), the ...
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Wait (223 Occurrences)
... Also the New Testament thus: "Waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of
our body" (Romans 8:23); "For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the ...
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God (45911 Occurrences)
... in Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9, 20) may be only an emphatic form of expressing
sonship, or it may already suggest the possibility of the adoption of the ...
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Septuagint
... TO SIRACH V. TRANSMISSION OF THE SEPTUAGINT TEXT 1. Early Corruption of the Text
2. Official Revision of Hebrew Text circa 100 AD 3. Adoption of Septuagint by ...
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Slave (148 Occurrences)
... In view of the fact that adoption, the adrogatio of the Roman law, was unknown both
to Biblical and Talmudic law (see Jewish Encyclopedia, under the word), the ...
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Children
... in Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9, 20) may be only an emphatic form of expressing
sonship, or it may already suggest the possibility of the adoption of the ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/children.htm - 62k

Ourselves (129 Occurrences)
... 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption ...
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Law-giving (1 Occurrence)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,
and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises; (DBY). ...
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Lawgiving (1 Occurrence)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites, whose 'is' the adoption, and the glory, and the
covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, (YLT). ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/lawgiving.htm - 6k

Lord's (548 Occurrences)
... In secular use it signified "imperial," "belonging to the lord"-the emperor-and
so its adoption by Christianity in the sense "belonging to the Lord"-to Christ ...
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Whereby (46 Occurrences)
... (KJV). Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ...
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Wit (28 Occurrences)
... 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption ...
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Intention (10 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, (See NAS). ...
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Israelites (468 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS ...
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Ishi (5 Occurrences)
... ish'-i (yish`i, "salutary"): (1) A Jerahmeelite (1 Chronicles 2:31); the genealogy
may denote his membership by blood, or only by adoption, in the tribe of ...
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First-fruit (19 Occurrences)
... 8:23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for 'our' adoption, 'to wit ...
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Foreordained (8 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 1:5 having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ
unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (ASV YLT). ...
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Fruits (109 Occurrences)
... 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption ...
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Theirs (96 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Romans 9:4 who are Israelites, whose 'is' the adoption, and the glory, and
the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, (See NIV) ...
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Recommendation (2 Occurrences)
... n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending
to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he ...
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Rights (35 Occurrences)
... (BBE NIV). Galatians 4:5 that he might redeem those who were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of children. (See NIV). ...
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Redeem (56 Occurrences)
... Galatians 4:5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of children. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Eagerly (36 Occurrences)
... 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption ...
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Espousal
... 2. (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption;
as, the espousal of a quarrel. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Expecting (22 Occurrences)
... Romans 8:23 And not only 'so', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of
the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the ...
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Departure (22 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him
in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. ...
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Destined (25 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, (Root in WEB WEY ...
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Divine (39 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; (See NIV). ...
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Daysman (1 Occurrence)
... word appears to have been more common in the 16th century than at the later date
of the translation of the King James Version, when its adoption was infrequent ...
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Mover (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for
consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body. ...
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Pertain (9 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and
the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pertain.htm - 9k

Predestined (6 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, (WEB NAS NIV). ...
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Prisoner (87 Occurrences)
... there were no special buildings erected as "jails" in the premonarchical period,
and perhaps not before the post-exilic period, when the adoption of the civic ...
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Passage (20 Occurrences)
... proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final
affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as ...
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Promises (35 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS ...
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Propose (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to
propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/propose.htm - 9k

Pertaineth (18 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and
the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the ...
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Predestinated (4 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (KJV WBS). ...
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Caesar (25 Occurrences)
... In the New Testament the name is definitely applied to Augustus (Luke 2:1, "Caesar
Augustus"), to whom it belonged by adoption, and to Tiberius (Luke 3:1 ...
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Cart (12 Occurrences)
... Assyrian origin. They were early carried to Egypt where the flat nature
of the country readily led to their adoption. From Egypt ...
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Covenants (5 Occurrences)
... Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/covenants.htm - 8k

Awaiting (13 Occurrences)
... Romans 8:23 And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits
of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is ...
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Agitation (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed
for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Assurance (16 Occurrences)
... is founded on the truth of the promises (Hebrews 6:18), on the inward evidence of
Christian graces, and on the testimony of the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:16 ...
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Abba (3 Occurrences)
... Romans 8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, " Abba! ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/abba.htm - 9k

Accept (106 Occurrences)
... [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].
7. (a.) Accepted. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Ador

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Son (25967 Occurrences)
... In the New Testament this phrase frequently denotes the relation into which we are
brought to God by adoption (Romans 8:14, 19; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Galatians 4 ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/son.htm - 48k

Succoth-benoth (1 Occurrence)
... The adoption of such a descriptive name of Enlil-Merodach would form a compromise
between abandoning their old objects of worship and accepting "the god of the ...
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Stoics (1 Occurrence)
... The system acquired its most lasting influence by its adoption as the formative
factor in the jurisprudence of imperial Rome, and Roman law in its turn ...
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Saviour (157 Occurrences)
... Latin" (Verr. ii.2, 63,154). So the adoption of Soter by Christianity was
most natural, the word seemed ready-made. (4) That the ...
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Succothbenoth (1 Occurrence)
... The adoption of such a descriptive name of Enlil-Merodach would form a compromise
between abandoning their old objects of worship and accepting "the god of the ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/succothbenoth.htm - 9k

Beforehand (38 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Ephesians 1:5 having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (DBY). ...
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Fable
... It is worth noting that in 2 Timothy 4:4 the adoption of these fables
is said to be the result of dabbling in the dubious. This ...
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Groan (32 Occurrences)
... 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption ...
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Firstfruits (37 Occurrences)
... 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit ...
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First-fruits (45 Occurrences)
... 8:23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for 'our' adoption, 'to wit ...
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Relationships (1 Occurrence)
...Adoption in the Roman sense was, however, hardly to be expected in a
polygamous society where the childless father could remarry. ...
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Bondage (55 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Romans 8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, " Abba! ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/bondage.htm - 28k

Malefactor (2 Occurrences)
... John, who lays special emphasis on sonship by birth, uses teknon, while Paul, in
emphasizing sonship from the legal side, as referring to adoption, which was ...
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Marked (163 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Ephesians 1:5 having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (DBY). ...
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Predestination
... is finely said (1:4, 5) that God hath chosen us in Christ "before the foundation
of the world," having predestinated or "foreordained us unto adoption as sons ...
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Accordance (118 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Ephesians 1:5 having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus
Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, (See NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/accordance.htm - 37k

Elisha (70 Occurrences)
... overwhelmed with its significance. It meant his adoption as the son and successor
of Elijah in the prophetic office. Naturally he would ...
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Leading (101 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Romans 8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, " Abba! ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/leading.htm - 36k

Lot (145 Occurrences)
... A childless uncle and a fatherless nephew may well have remained together with the
idea that, even if there was no formal adoption, the nephew might become his ...
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Prison (131 Occurrences)
... there were no special buildings erected as "jails" in the premonarchical period,
and perhaps not before the post-exilic period, when the adoption of the civic ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/prison.htm - 52k

Godhead (5 Occurrences)
... He uses the term to theion, rather than ho theos, not merely in courteous adoption
of his hearers' own language, but because of its qualitative emphasis. ...
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