2 Corinthians 6:18

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

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

Genesis 48:3

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

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.

1 Chronicles 17:13

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.

Psalm 22:30

Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.

Isaiah 43:6

I 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 3:19

“I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not 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 31:9

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

John 1:12

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Romans 8:29

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

Galatians 3:26

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

Ephesians 1:5

he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—

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.”

Revelation 21:22

I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Revelation 21:7

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.