1 John 3:1

Modern English Version

Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

Yet this was comparatively insignificant in Your sight, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant’s house into the distant future. Is this Your manner with man, Lord God?

Psalm 31:19

Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You before the sons of men!

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said: How can I put you among My sons and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of the 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 Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Luke 20:36

For they cannot die any more, for they are equal to the angels and are the sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

John 1:12

Yet to all who received Him, He gave the power to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name,

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but that He might also gather together in unity the children of God who were scattered abroad.

John 15:21

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

John 16:3

They will do these things to 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 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 demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:19

The eager expectation of the creation waits for the appearance of the sons of God.

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare 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

“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

You are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:29

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

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

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Whoever does not live in righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

1 John 4:17

In this way God’s love is perfected in us, so that we may have boldness on the Day of Judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.

Revelation 21:7

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.