I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
- BSB And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- NKJV “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
- NASB “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.
- NLT And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
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- Rev 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
- John 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
- 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
- Rom 8:14–17For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
- Gal 4:5–7that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
- Gal 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Isa 43:6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —
- Hos 1:9–10He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
- Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- 1 Jn 3:1–2See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
- Ps 22:30Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- Jer 31:1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Rev 21:22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
- Gen 48:3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
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