John 1:12

New Century Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

You made the people of Israel your very own people forever, and, Lord, you are their God.

Isaiah 56:5

If they do, I will make their names remembered within my Temple and its walls. It will be better for them than children. I will give them a name that will last forever, that will never be forgotten.

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.’

Matthew 10:40

Whoever accepts you also accepts me, and whoever accepts me also accepts the One who sent me.

Matthew 12:21

In him will the non-Jewish people find hope.”

Matthew 18:5

“Whoever accepts a child in my name accepts me.

John 1:11

He came to the world that was his own, but his own people did not accept him.

John 1:7

He came to tell people the truth about the Light so that through him all people could hear about the Light and believe.

John 11:52

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

John 2:23

When Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast, many people believed in him because they saw the miracles he did.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Then, by believing, you may have life through his name.

John 3:18

People who believe in God’s Son are not judged guilty. Those who do not believe have already been judged guilty, because they have not believed in God’s one and only Son.

Acts 3:16

It was faith in Jesus that made this crippled man well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of trust in Jesus, and you all saw it happen!

Romans 8:14

The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them.

Romans 8:16

And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

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

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 4:6

Since you are God’s children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and the Spirit cries out, “Father.”

Colossians 2:6

As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he gave us the very great and precious promises. With these gifts you can share in God’s nature, and the world will not ruin you with its evil desires.

1 John 3:1

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.

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 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.