2 Corinthians 6:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.

Genesis 48:3

Jacob then said to Joseph: “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessing me,

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;

1 Chronicles 17:13

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me, and I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from the one who was before you;

Psalm 22:30

All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north: Give them up! and to the south: Do not hold them! Bring back my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth:

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought: How I would like to make you my children! So I gave you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage among the nations! You would call me, “My Father,” I thought, and you would never turn away from me.

Jeremiah 31:1

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

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, but with compassion I will guide them; I will lead them to streams of water, on a level road, without stumbling. For I am a father to Israel, Ephraim is my firstborn.

John 1:12

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

Romans 8:19

For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God;

Romans 8:29

For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Galatians 3:26

For through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:5

he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” The First Vision.

Revelation 21:22

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

Revelation 21:7

The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son.