I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
- BSB I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
- NKJV “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.
- NASB ¶“I will announce the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have fathered You.
- NLT The king proclaims the Lord’s decree: “The Lord said to me, ‘You are my son. Today I have become your Father.
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Fulfillment
- Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
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- Heb 5:5So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
- Acts 13:33that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’
- Heb 1:5–6For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
- Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- Rom 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
- Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
- Heb 5:8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
- Matt 8:29Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
- Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
- Ps 148:6He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
- Job 23:13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
- Acts 8:36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
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