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What is adoption?
Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.
Scripture Proofs
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.
Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.