1 John 3:1

English Standard Version 2016

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Cross References

John 1:12

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Galatians 3:26

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

John 17:25

O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 21:7

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Romans 5:8

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 3:29

And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

John 16:3

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

2 Samuel 7:19

And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Jeremiah 3:19

“‘I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.

Psalm 31:19

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Luke 20:36

for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

John 15:21

But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:10

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 4:17

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.