2 Samuel 7:14
Good News Translation
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him as a father punishes his son.

New Revised Standard Version
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.

Contemporary English Version
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I'll see that he is corrected, just as children are corrected by their parents.

New American Bible
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

I will be

1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee.

1 Chronicles 28:6 And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

Psalm 89:20-37 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. . . .

Matthew 3:17 And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Hebrews 1:5 For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

If he

Psalm 89:30-35 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: . . .

I will

Deuteronomy 8:5 That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Job 5:17 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Psalm 94:12,13 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. . . .

Proverbs 3:11,12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself. . . .

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

1 Corinthians 11:32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

Hebrews 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
God's Covenant with David
13He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever. 14I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.15But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before my face.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:32
But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

2 Corinthians 6:18
And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Hebrews 12:7
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

Revelation 21:7
He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.

Deuteronomy 8:5
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

1 Kings 9:6
But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them:

1 Kings 11:34
Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.

1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

1 Chronicles 28:6
And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

Psalm 89:26
He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

Psalm 89:27
And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

Psalm 89:30
And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

2 Samuel 7:13
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