1 John 3:10

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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.

Cross References

1 John 4:8

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, don’t follow what is bad; follow what is good. Whoever does what is good is from God. But whoever does evil has never known God.

1 John 4:21

God gave us this command: If we love God, we must also love each other as brothers and sisters.

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world. The good seed are the people in God’s kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the Evil One.

John 8:47

Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”

Luke 6:35

“I’m telling you to love your enemies and do good to them. Lend to people without expecting to get anything back. If you do this, you will have a great reward. You will be children of the Most High God. Yes, because God is good even to the people who are full of sin and not thankful.

1 John 4:6

But we are from God. So the people who know God listen to us. But the people who are not from God don’t listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit that is true and the spirit that is false.

Ephesians 5:1

You are God’s dear children, so try to be like him.

1 John 5:2

How do we know that we love God’s children? We know because we love God and we obey his commands.

1 John 2:29

You know that Christ always did what was right. So you know that all those who do what is right are God’s children.

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the devil, full of lies and all kinds of evil tricks! You are an enemy of everything that is right. Will you never stop trying to change the Lord’s truths into lies?

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, but the Evil One controls the whole world.

2 Samuel 13:22

Absalom began to hate Amnon. Absalom did not say one word, good or bad, to Amnon, but he hated him because Amnon had raped his sister Tamar.

John 1:12

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

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.

Romans 13:8

You should owe nothing to anyone, except that you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has done all that the law commands.

Colossians 3:14

Together with these things, the most important part of your new life is to love each other. Love is what holds everything together in perfect unity.

1 Timothy 1:5

My purpose in telling you to do this is to promote love—the kind of love shown by those whose thoughts are pure, who do what they know is right, and whose faith in God is real.

1 John 3:1

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.

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.