2Cor 6:18 Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:18

18: And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he sins, I will use other nations to punish him.

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

Tears of joy will stream down their faces, and I will lead them home with great care. They will walk beside quiet streams and not stumble. For I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my oldest child.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."
For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children.
And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
And because you Gentiles have become his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father.
Now you are no longer a slave but God's own child. And since you are his child, everything he has belongs to you.

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.

His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.

and from north and south. I will bring my sons and daughters back to Israel from the distant corners of the earth.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega--the beginning and the end," says the Lord God. "I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come, the Almighty One."

"In that day," says the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

Future generations will also serve him. Our children will hear about the wonders of the Lord.

"I thought to myself, `I would love to treat you as my own children!' I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land--the finest inheritance in the world. I looked forward to your calling me `Father,' and I thought you would never turn away from me again.

And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi--`Not my people'--for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.
Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'

No temple could be seen in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.
Yes, dear friends, we are already God's children, and we can't even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when he comes we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

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