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 - Revised Standard Version and I will be a father to you, 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 blessed me,
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;
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,
Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
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,
“ ‘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.
“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 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.
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 sons 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 first-born among many brethren.
He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose 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.
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son.