John 1:12

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.

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.”

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.

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!”

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

Matthew 12:21

and on him all peoples will put their hope.”

Matthew 18:5

And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.

John 1:11

He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him.

John 1:7

who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe.

John 11:52

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

John 2:23

While Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in him as they saw the miracles he performed.

John 20:31

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

John 3:18

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

Acts 3:16

It was the power of his name that gave strength to this lame man. What you see and know was done by faith in his name; it was faith in Jesus that has made him well, as you can all see.

Romans 8:14

Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.

Romans 8:16

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

Romans 8:19

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

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.”

Colossians 2:6

Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with 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 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 3:2

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 3:23

What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.