1 John 3:1

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord GOD!

Psalm 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

Luke 20:36

For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

John 11:52

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

John 15:21

But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

John 16:3

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

John 17:25

Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

John 3:16

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

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8:32

He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.*

Galatians 3:26

For you are all children of God, through faith in Messiah Yeshua.

Galatians 3:29

If you are Messiah's, then you are Avraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

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

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

1 John 4:17

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

Revelation 21:7

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.