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 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• John 1:12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit 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, they are the sons of God.
• Gal 4:5–7To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• Gal 3:26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Rev 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Isa 43:6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
• Hos 1:9–10Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
• Eph 1:5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• 1 Jn 3:1–2Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• Jer 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
• Ps 22:30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Jer 31:1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Rev 21:22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
• Gen 48:3And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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