2 Corinthians 6:18

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῖν εἰς Πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ.

Transliteration

And I esomai to you for Patera, and you esesthe to me for hyious and thygateras, legei Kyrios pantokratōr.

Grammar Details

• *esomai*: future indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I will be
• *Patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *esesthe*: future indicative, middle, 2nd person plural - you will be
• *hyious*: accusative, masculine, plural - sons
• *thygateras*: accusative, feminine, plural - daughters
• *legei*: present indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says/speaks
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *pantokratōr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Almighty/All-ruling

Word Meanings

• *Patera*: Father/male parent/ancestor
• *hyious*: sons/male children/descendants
• *thygateras*: daughters/female children
• *Kyrios*: Lord/master/owner
• *pantokratōr*: Almighty/All-ruling/Omnipotent/All-powerful

Referenced Verses

• John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
• Gal 3:26 : 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 4:5-7 : 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
• Isa 43:6 : 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Hos 1:9-9 : 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
• Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Gen 48:3 : 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
• 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Eph 1:5 : 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Rom 8:29 : 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Rev 21:22 : 22 And I saw no temple thein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb a the temple of it.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.