1 John 3:10

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This is the way God’s children are distinguished from the devil’s children. Everyone who doesn’t do what is right or love other believers isn’t God’s child.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

Absalom wouldn’t speak at all to Amnon. He hated Amnon for raping his sister Tamar.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world. The good seeds are those who belong to the kingdom. The weeds are those who belong to the evil one.

Luke 6:35

Rather, love your enemies, help them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward. You will be the children of the Most High God. After all, he is kind to unthankful and evil people.

John 1:12

However, he gave the right to become God’s children to everyone who believed in him.

John 11:52

He prophesied that Jesus wouldn’t die merely for this nation, but that Jesus would die to bring God’s scattered children together and make them one.

John 8:44

You come from your father, the devil, and you desire to do what your father wants you to do. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He has never been truthful. He doesn’t know what the truth is. Whenever he tells a lie, he’s doing what comes naturally to him. He’s a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:47

The person who belongs to God understands what God says. You don’t understand because you don’t belong to God.”

Acts 13:10

and said, “You are full of dirty tricks and schemes, you son of the devil! You hate everything that has God’s approval. Quit trying to distort the truth about the way the Lord wants people to live.

Romans 13:8

Pay your debts as they come due. However, one debt you can never finish paying is the debt of love that you owe each other. The one who loves another person has fulfilled Moses’ Teachings.

Ephesians 5:1

Imitate God, since you are the children he loves.

Colossians 3:14

Above all, be loving. This ties everything together perfectly.

1 Timothy 1:5

My goal in giving you this order is for love to flow from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

1 John 2:29

If you know that Christ has God’s approval, you also know that everyone who does what God approves of has been born from God.

1 John 3:1

Consider this: The Father has given us his love. He loves us so much that we are actually called God’s dear children. And that’s what we are. For this reason the world doesn’t recognize us, and it didn’t recognize him either.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are God’s children. What we will be isn’t completely clear yet. We do know that when Christ appears we will be like him because we will see him as he is.

1 John 4:21

Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.

1 John 4:6

We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever doesn’t belong to God doesn’t listen to us. That’s how we can tell the Spirit of truth from the spirit of lies.

1 John 4:8

The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

1 John 5:2

We know that we love God’s children when we love God by obeying his commandments.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, never imitate evil, but imitate good. The person who does good is from God. The person who does evil has never seen God.