1 John 3:10

New International Reader's Version

Here is how you can tell the difference between God’s children and the devil’s children. Anyone who doesn’t do what is right isn’t God’s child. And anyone who doesn’t love their brother or sister isn’t God’s child either.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom never said a word of any kind to Amnon. He hated Amnon because he had brought shame on his sister Tamar.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world. The good seed stands for the people who belong to the kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies. Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then you will receive a lot in return. And you will be children of the Most High God. He is kind to people who are evil and are not thankful.

John 1:12

Some people did accept him and did believe in his name. He gave them the right to become children of God.

John 11:52

He also prophesied that Jesus would die for God’s children scattered everywhere. He would die to bring them together and make them one.

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil. You want to obey your father’s wishes. From the beginning, the devil was a murderer. He has never obeyed the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his natural language. He does this because he is a liar. He is the father of lies.

John 8:47

Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you don’t hear is that you don’t belong to God.”

Acts 13:10

“You are a child of the devil! You are an enemy of everything that is right! You cheat people. You use all kinds of tricks. Won’t you ever stop twisting the right ways of the Lord?

Romans 13:8

Pay everything you owe. But you can never pay back all the love you owe one another. Whoever loves other people has done everything the law requires.

Ephesians 5:1

You are the children that God dearly loves. So follow his example.

Colossians 3:14

And over all these good things put on love. Love holds them all together perfectly as if they were one.

1 Timothy 1:5

Love is the purpose of my command. Love comes from a pure heart. It comes from a good sense of what is right and wrong. It comes from faith that is honest and true.

1 John 2:29

You know that God is right and always does what is right. And you know that everyone who does what is right is God’s child.

1 John 3:1

See what amazing love the Father has given us! Because of it, we are called children of God. And that’s what we really are! The world doesn’t know us because it didn’t know him.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. He still hasn’t let us know what we will be. But we know that when Christ appears, we will be like him. That’s because we will see him as he really is.

1 John 4:21

Here is the command God has given us. Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

1 John 4:6

We belong to God. And those who know God listen to us. But those who don’t belong to God don’t listen to us. That’s how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of lies.

1 John 4:8

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are children of God. We know that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

1 John 5:2

Here is how we know that we love God’s children. We know it when we love God and obey his commands.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, don’t be like those who do evil. Be like those who do good. Anyone who does what is good belongs to God. Anyone who does what is evil hasn’t really seen or known God.