2 Corinthians 6:18

God promises to be a Father to His people, who will be His sons and daughters. Holiness leads into the intimacy of God's family.

Cross-references · 19

• Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
• John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
• Rom 8:14–17For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
• Gal 4:5–7to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
• Gal 3:26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Jer 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Rom 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “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 was and is to come—the Almighty.
• Isa 43:6I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
• Hos 1:9–10And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
• Eph 1:5He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
• 1 Jn 3:1–2Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
• Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
• Ps 22:30Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
• Jer 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
• Rev 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God 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 there He blessed me

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