Adoption See also Abrahamic Covenant; Election; Israel, Mission of; Sons and Daughters of God; BD Adoption ye have received the Spirit of adoption, Rom. 8:15. waiting for the adoption, … the redemption, Rom. 8:23. Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, Rom. 9:4. that we might receive the adoption of sons, Gal. 4:5. predestinated us unto the adoption of children, Eph. 1:5.