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.
2 Corinthians 6:18 - New Revised Standard Version and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And will be a Father unto you, And ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Common English Bible “I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty”. Catholic Public Domain Version 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will receive you; and I will be a Father to you; and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. |
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.
And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me,
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord,
I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth—
I thought how I would set you among my children, and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God;
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.
He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God and they will be my children.