1 John 3:2

Good News Translation

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.

Cross References

Job 19:26

Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

Psalm 16:11

You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.

Psalm 17:15

But I will see you, because I have done no wrong; and when I awake, your presence will fill me with joy.

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.

Isaiah 56:5

then your name will be remembered in my Temple and among my people longer than if you had sons and daughters. You will never be forgotten.”

Malachi 3:2

But who will be able to endure the day when he comes? Who will be able to survive when he appears? He will be like strong soap, like a fire that refines metal.

Matthew 5:8

“Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

Luke 17:30

That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 20:36

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

John 1:12

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

John 11:52

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

John 17:24

“Father! You have given them to me, and I want them to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, the glory you gave me; for you loved me before the world was made.

Romans 8:16

God's Spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that we are God's children.

Romans 8:18

I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:19

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

Romans 8:29

Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.

1 Corinthians 13:12

What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God's knowledge of me.

1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:9

However, as the scripture says, “What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

2 Corinthians 4:17

And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

To show that you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out, “Father, my Father.”

Philippians 3:21

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

Colossians 3:4

Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!

Hebrews 9:28

In the same manner Christ also was offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many. He will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are waiting for him.

2 Peter 1:4

In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.

1 John 2:28

Yes, my children, remain in union with him, so that when he appears we may be full of courage and need not hide in shame from him on the Day he comes.

1 John 2:7

My dear friends, this command I am writing you is not new; it is the old command, the one you have had from the very beginning. The old command is the message you have already heard.

1 John 3:1

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.

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 3:21

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

1 John 5:1

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

Revelation 22:4

They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads.