1 John 3:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

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.

Cross References

Job 19:26

“Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,

Psalm 16:11

You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

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!

Isaiah 56:5

To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be eliminated.

Malachi 3:2

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap.

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Luke 17:30

It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

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 17:24

Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 8:18

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:19

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

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters;

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

1 Corinthians 2:9

but just as it is written: “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the human heart, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:17

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

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! Father!”

Philippians 3:21

who will transform the body of our lowly condition into conformity with His glorious body, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.

1 John 2:28

Now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not draw back from Him in shame at His coming.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 3:1

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.

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 3:21

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

Revelation 2:28

and I will give him the morning star.

Revelation 22:4

they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.