1 John 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Job 19:26

This will happen when my skin has been stripped off, and from my flesh I will see God:

Psalm 16:11

You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.

Psalm 17:15

I am just—let me see your face; when I awake, let me be filled with your presence.

Psalm 31:19

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

Isaiah 56:5

I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name Better than sons and daughters; an eternal name, which shall not be cut off, will I give them.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand firm when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like fullers’ lye.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.

Luke 17:30

So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

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 1:12

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

John 11:52

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

John 17:24

Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 8:18

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.

Romans 8:19

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

Romans 8:29

For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

1 Corinthians 13:12

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one. The Resurrection Event.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,”

2 Corinthians 3:18

All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Philippians 3:21

He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. Renunciation of Vice.

Hebrews 9:28

so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

1 John 2:28

And now, children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be put to shame by him at his coming.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 3:1

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.

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 3:21

Beloved, if [our] hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves [also] the one begotten by him.

Revelation 2:28

just as I received authority from my Father. And to him I will give the morning star.

Revelation 22:4

They will look upon his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.