2 Corinthians 6:18
Good News Translation
I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

New Revised Standard Version
and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Contemporary English Version
and be your Father. You will be my sons and my daughters, as surely as I am God, the All-Powerful."

New American Bible
and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

a Father.

Psalm 22:30 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

Jeremiah 3:19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.

Jeremiah 31:1,9 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. . . .

Hosea 1:9,10 And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. . . .

John 1:12 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.

Romans 8:14-17,29 For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. . . .

Galatians 3:26 For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5-7 That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons. . . .

Ephesians 1:5 Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

1 John 3:1,2 Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. . . .

Revelation 21:7 He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.

the Lord.

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 48:3 And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty appeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed me,

Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb.

Context
Do Not Be Unequally Yoked
17Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: 18And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

1 Chronicles 17:13
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee.

Isaiah 43:6
I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Hosea 1:10
And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

Romans 8:14
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans 8:16
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

Romans 8:19
For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

Revelation 21:7
He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.

2 Corinthians 6:17
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