1 John 3:1

New Century Version

The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children. The reason the people in the world do not know us is that they have not known him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

But even this is not enough for you, Lord God. You have also made promises about my future family. This is extraordinary, Lord God.

Psalm 31:19

How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you have given to those who trust you. You do this for all to see.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I, the Lord, said, ‘How happy I would be to treat you as my own children and give you a pleasant land, a land more beautiful than that of any other nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘My Father’ and not turn away from me.

Hosea 1:10

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Luke 20:36

In that life they are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from the dead.

John 1:12

But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.

John 11:52

and for God’s scattered children to bring them all together and make them one.

John 15:21

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me.

John 16:3

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

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me.

John 3:16

“God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 8:19

Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children’s glory completely.

Romans 8:21

that everything God made would be set free from ruin to have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.

Romans 8:32

He did not spare his own Son but gave him for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This means that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:29

You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You will inherit all of God’s blessings because of the promise God made to Abraham.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

Colossians 3:3

Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children, and those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not God’s children.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and we have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him, because we will see him as he really is.

1 John 4:17

This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive this, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.