1 John 4:15

New Century Version

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God.

Cross References

Matthew 10:32

“All those who stand before others and say they believe in me, I will say before my Father in heaven that they belong to me.

Luke 12:8

“I tell you, all those who stand before others and say they believe in me, I, the Son of Man, will say before the angels of God that they belong to me.

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

Acts 8:37

Philip answered, “If you believe with all your heart, you can.” The officer said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”]

Romans 10:9

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved.

Philippians 2:11

And everyone will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and bring glory to God the Father.

1 John 2:23

Whoever does not accept the Son does not have the Father. But whoever confesses the Son has the Father, too.

1 John 2:24

Be sure you continue to follow the teaching you heard from the beginning. If you continue to follow what you heard from the beginning, you will stay in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and that we love each other, just as he commanded.

1 John 3:24

The people who obey God’s commands live in God, and God lives in them. We know that God lives in us because of the Spirit God gave us.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:2

This is how you can know God’s Spirit: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human is from God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child, and whoever loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

1 John 5:5

So the one who conquers the world is the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

2 John 1:7

Many false teachers are in the world now who do not confess that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human. Anyone who does not confess this is a false teacher and an enemy of Christ.