What Does 2 Corinthians 6:18 Mean in the King James?
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse places limitless rule and intimate kinship side by side: the Almighty is Father to you.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as family: the Lord is Father to you, and you are named among his sons and daughters. “Almighty” stands beside “Father,” joining complete authority with intimate belonging in the same promise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that the Almighty must be distant: the verse names that same presence as Father.
THE ROOT
πατέρα
patéra
GROWS FROM
πατρ-
patr-
Father, progenitor; one from whom a family line is named.
The same Greek stem appears in words for a family line and a homeland. That root makes “Father” carry kinship and belonging with it, not only authority.
ALSO GROWS
patriá: Family, lineage
πατριά
The same father-root names the connected family line, showing that “Father” carries the idea of shared belonging.
patrís: Homeland, native country
πατρίς
The father-root extends into the place a family calls home; fatherhood here includes belonging, not only authority.
παντοκράτωρ
pantokratōr
GROWS FROM
κρατ-
krat-
To hold sway, exercise power, or rule.
The title joins “all” with ruling power, presenting the Almighty as all-ruling. In this verse, that authority stands beside Fatherhood: universal rule and intimate kinship belong together.
ALSO GROWS
krateō: To hold, seize, or keep
κρατέω
This verb carries the root’s active sense of holding or exercising power, giving “Almighty” more texture than abstract strength.
kratos: Might, power, dominion
κράτος
This branch names the power in the title; here, that power belongs to the same one who calls you family.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes divine belonging concrete through parent-child language, joining God’s authority to care and identity.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.THE THREAD
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?It repeats the Greek family words υἱός (huios, son) and πατήρ (patēr, father), linking the passages through their shared vocabulary. Here, that pairing expands to sons and daughters under the same Father.
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