1 John 3:10

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

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 8:44

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:47

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

Acts 13:10

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Colossians 3:14

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

1 Timothy 1:5

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

1 John 3:1

(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.

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 4:21

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

1 John 4:6

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

1 John 4:8

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.