John 1:12

New English Translation

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.

Isaiah 56:5

I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.

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!”

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

Matthew 12:21

And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

Matthew 18:5

And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

John 11:52

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

John 2:23

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

John 20:31

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 3:18

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Acts 3:16

And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ name, his very name has made this man – whom you see and know – strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.

Romans 8:14

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

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

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

Colossians 2:6

Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

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 3:10

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 3:23

Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.