2 Corinthians 6:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And will be a Father unto you, And ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. [Isa. 43:6; Hos. 1:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ “I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

2 Corinthians 6:18 Cross References

Revelation 21:7

He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son.

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God;

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Galatians 3:26

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

Ephesians 1:5

He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

Jeremiah 3:19

“ ‘I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.

Psalm 22:30

Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,

Jeremiah 31:1

“At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”

Revelation 21:22

And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.

Genesis 48:3

And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

1 Chronicles 17:13

I will be his father, and he shall be my son; I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;