2 Corinthians 6:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῖν εἰς Πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ.

Transliteration

And I esomai to you for Patera, and you esesthe to me for hyious and thygateras, legei Kyrios pantokratōr.

Grammar Details

• *esomai*: future indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I will be
• *Patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *esesthe*: future indicative, middle, 2nd person plural - you will be
• *hyious*: accusative, masculine, plural - sons
• *thygateras*: accusative, feminine, plural - daughters
• *legei*: present indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says/speaks
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *pantokratōr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Almighty/All-ruling

Word Meanings

• *Patera*: Father/male parent/ancestor
• *hyious*: sons/male children/descendants
• *thygateras*: daughters/female children
• *Kyrios*: Lord/master/owner
• *pantokratōr*: Almighty/All-ruling/Omnipotent/All-powerful

Referenced Verses

• John 1:12 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children
• Rev 21:7 : 7 The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
• Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.
• Gal 3:26 : 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
• Gal 4:5-7 : 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. 6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
• Isa 43:6 : 6 I will say to the north,‘Hand them over!’ and to the south,‘Don’t hold any back!’ Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
• Hos 1:9-9 : 9 Then the LORD said:“Name him‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God.” 10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
• Jer 3:19 : 19 “I thought to myself,‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me,‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!”
• Gen 17:1 : 1 The Sign of the Covenant When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said,“I am the Sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
• Gen 48:3 : 3 Jacob said to Joseph,“The Sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
• 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord.
• Eph 1:5 : 5 He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–
• Rom 8:29 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
• Rev 21:22 : 22 Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All-Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God– the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come– the All-Powerful!
• 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.