1 John 3:1

New American Bible - revised edition

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Cross References

John 1:12

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

Galatians 3:26

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

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

John 17:25

Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

Revelation 21:7

The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son.

Romans 5:8

But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Galatians 3:29

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendant, heirs according to the promise.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?

John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

2 Samuel 7:19

And yet even this is too little in your sight, Lord God! For you have made a promise regarding your servant’s house reaching into the future, and giving guidance to the people, Lord God!

Romans 8:21

that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought: How I would like to make you my children! So I gave you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage among the nations! You would call me, “My Father,” I thought, and you would never turn away from me.

Psalm 31:19

Strike dumb their lying lips, which speak arrogantly against the righteous in contempt and scorn.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.

Luke 20:36

They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.

John 11:52

and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.

John 15:21

And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Romans 8:19

For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God;

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:10

In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 4:17

In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world.