2 Corinthians 6:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

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  • John 1:12 : 12 but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
  • Rev 21:7 : 7 he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; 15 for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.' 16 The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God; 17 and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
  • Gal 4:5-7 : 5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; 6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!' 7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
  • Isa 43:6 : 6 I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south, `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.
  • Hos 1:9-9 : 9 and He saith, `Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye `are' not My people, and I am not for you; 10 and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye `are' not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.
  • Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;
  • Gen 48:3 : 3 And Jacob saith unto Joseph, `God Almighty hath appeared unto me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesseth me,
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.
  • Eph 1:5 : 5 having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
  • Rev 21:22 : 22 And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; 2 beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

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