1 John 3:1

King James 2000

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

Psalm 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, you are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, you are the sons of the living God.

Luke 20:36

Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John 11:52

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

John 15:21

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3

And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 17:25

O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 5:8

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

Romans 8:19

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:21

Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Romans 8:32

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

2 Corinthians 6:18

And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Galatians 3:26

For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:29

And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's descendants, and heirs according to the promise.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

1 John 4:17

In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Revelation 21:7

He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.