1 John 3:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Father has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him.

Cross References

John 1:12

But some people did accept him. They believed in him, and he gave them the right to become children of God.

Galatians 3:26

You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord All-Powerful.” 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

John 17:25

Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me.

John 3:16

Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Revelation 21:7

All those who win the victory will receive all this. And I will be their God, and they will be my children.

Romans 5:8

But Christ died for us while we were still sinners, and by this God showed how much he loves us.

Galatians 3:29

You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You get all of God’s blessings because of the promise that God made to Abraham.

Romans 8:32

He even let his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for all of us. So now with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.

John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me.

Colossians 3:3

Your old self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.

2 Samuel 7:19

I am nothing but a servant, but Lord GOD, you have also said these kind things about my future family. Lord GOD, you don’t always talk like this to people, do you?

Romans 8:21

That the creation would be made free from ruin—that everything God made would have the same freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.

Jeremiah 3:19

This message is from the Lord: “I want to treat you like my own children. I want to give you a pleasant land, a land more beautiful than any other nation. I thought you would call me ‘Father.’ I thought you would always follow me. But you have been unfaithful to me, family of Israel! You have been like an unfaithful wife who leaves her husband.

Psalm 31:19

Lord, you have hidden away many wonderful things for your followers. You have done so many good things for those who trust in you. You have blessed them so that all the world can see.

Hosea 1:10

“In the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which you cannot measure or count. In the same place that God told them, ‘You are not my people,’ he will call them ‘children of the Living God.’

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

Luke 20:36

In that life people are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from death.

John 11:52

Yes, he would die for the Jewish people. But he would also die for God’s other children scattered all over the world. He would die to bring them all together and make them one people.

John 15:21

They will do to you whatever they did to me, because you belong to me. They don’t know the one who sent me.

Romans 8:19

Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when he will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.

1 John 4:17

If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus.