1 John 3:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

Cross References

John 1:12

Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children.

Galatians 3:26

It is through faith that all of you are God's children in union with Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

John 17:25

Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

John 3:16

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive this from me: I will be their God, and they will be my children.

Romans 5:8

But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

Galatians 3:29

If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.

Romans 8:32

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also freely give us all things?

John 16:3

People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

Colossians 3:3

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

2 Samuel 7:19

Yet now you are doing even more, Sovereign Lord; you have made promises about my descendants in the years to come. And you let a man see this, Sovereign Lord!

Romans 8:21

that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Jeremiah 3:19

The Lord says, “Israel, I wanted to accept you as my child and give you a delightful land, the most beautiful land in all the world. I wanted you to call me father and never again turn away from me.

Psalm 31:19

How wonderful are the good things you keep for those who honor you! Everyone knows how good you are, how securely you protect those who trust you.

Hosea 1:10

The people of Israel will become like the sand of the sea, more than can be counted or measured. Now God says to them, “You are not my people,” but the day is coming when he will say to them, “You are the children of the living God!”

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.

Luke 20:36

They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death.

John 11:52

and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.

John 15:21

But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.

Romans 8:19

All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children.

1 John 3:2

My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.

1 John 3:10

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

1 John 4:17

Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ's.