2 Corinthians 6:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.””
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“And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 6:18 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Genesis 48:3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
- Psalms 22:30Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
- Isaiah 43:6I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
- Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
- Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
- Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
- Hosea 1:9And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
- John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Romans 8:14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
- Romans 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Galatians 3:26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 4:5to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
- Ephesians 1:5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
- 1 John 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Revelation 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Revelation 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
- Revelation 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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