John 1:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

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.

Romans 8:14

The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them.

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.

Galatians 4:6

Since you are now God’s children, he has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. The Spirit cries out, “Abba, Father.”

John 3:18

People who believe in God’s Son are not judged guilty. But people who do not believe are already judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son.

Colossians 2:6

You accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, so continue to live following him.

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever accepts you also accepts me. And whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.

Isaiah 56:5

So I will put a memorial stone in my Temple for them. Their name will be remembered in my city! Yes, I will give those eunuchs something better than sons and daughters. I will give them a name that will last forever! They will not be cut off from my people.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you can believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. Then, by believing, you can have life through his name.

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.’

2 Peter 1:4

through which he also gave us the very great and rich gifts that he promised us. With these gifts you can share in being like God. And so you will escape the ruin that comes to people in the world because of the evil things they want.

Matthew 12:21

All people will hope in him.” Isaiah 42:1-4

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love each other as he commanded.

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.

Acts 3:16

“This crippled man was healed because we trusted in Jesus. It was Jesus’ power that made him well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of faith in Jesus. You all saw it happen!

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 1:7

He came to tell people about the light. Through him all people could hear about the light and believe.

Matthew 18:5

“Whoever accepts a little child like this in my name is accepting me.

John 2:23

Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover festival. Many people believed in him because they saw the miraculous signs he did.

John 1:11

He came to the world that was his own. And his own people did not accept him.

Romans 8:16

And the Spirit himself speaks to our spirits and makes us sure that we are God’s children.

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.

2 Samuel 7:24

You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and Lord, you became their God.