1 John 3:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

And yet this was insignificant in Your eyes, Lord God, for You have spoken also of the house of Your servant regarding the distant future. And this is the custom of mankind, Lord God.

Psalm 31:19

¶How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have performed for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of mankind!

Jeremiah 3:19

“Then I said, ‘How I would set 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 not turn away from following Me.’

Hosea 1:10

¶Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or counted; And in the place Where it is said to them, “You are not My people,” It will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Luke 20:36

for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

John 1:12

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

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

John 15:21

But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

John 16:3

These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet 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 Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:19

For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.

Romans 8:21

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

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

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.

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 3:29

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

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

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

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

1 John 4:17

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, we also are in this world.

Revelation 21:7

The one who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.