1 John 3:1

Modern King James Version

Behold what manner of love the Father has given 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

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 men, O Lord God?

Psalm 31:19

How great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of men!

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among 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 sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

Luke 20:36

Nor can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels, and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,

John 11:52

and not for that nation only, but also that He should gather together in one 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

And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

John 17:25

O righteous Father, indeed 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 whoever 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

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

Romans 8:32

Truly 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

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

Galatians 3:26

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:29

And 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 Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, 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, that as He is, so also we are in this world.

Revelation 21:7

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