2 Corinthians 6:18 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁸ and be to you a father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me at Louza in the land of Chanaan and blessed me

¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when his iniquity shall come, I will correct him with a rod of men, and with scourges of the children of men,

³⁰ My seed indeed will serve him: a generation which is coming shall be announced for the Lord:

⁶ I will say to the north, "Give up" and to the south, "Keep thou not back; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

¹⁹ [p] [Whereupon I said, so be it, Lord.] [J] Because I am to rank thee among children and give thee a choice land; the heritage of God the Supreme Ruler of nations; therefore I said, "Call me Father, and, From me you shall not turn away."

¹ At that time, said the Lord, I will be the God of the family of Israel and they shall be my people.

⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born.

⁹ and he said, "Call his name "Not my people", since you are not my people and I am not your God." ¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God,

¹² But to as many as received him he granted the privilege of becoming children of God, even to them who believe in his name,

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the spirit of God, are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received a spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ This very spirit beareth joint witness with our spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ if we suffer with him so that with him we may also be glorified.

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew, even these he marked out beforehand to be of a form the same as that of the image of his son, that he might be a first born among many brethren.

²⁶ for you are all children of God by means of this belief in Christ Jesus.

⁵ that he might redeem those under law"that we may receive the adoption of children. ⁶ And because you are children, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father. ⁷ So that thou art no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son; then an heir of God through Christ.

⁵ having before hand determinately pointed us out for an adoption into the number of children by Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will;

¹ Behold what a love the Father hath shewn us, that we should be called children of God: on this account the world doth not know us, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," saith the Lord, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

⁷ He who overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son:

²² And in it I saw no temple; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is its temple.