1 John 3:1

New English Translation

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Lord God?

Psalm 31:19

How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I thought to myself, ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me, ‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.

Hosea 1:10

(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are children of the living God!”

Luke 20:36

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

John 11:52

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

John 17:25

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

John 3:16

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and 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 for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:19

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Romans 8:32

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 3:29

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

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of 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 revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed 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 just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

Revelation 21:7

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