1 John 3:1

New International Version

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Cross References

John 1:12

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

Galatians 3:26

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

2 Corinthians 6:18

And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 21:7

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 3:29

If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 8:32

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

John 16:3

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

Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

2 Samuel 7:19

And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign Lord, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this decree, Sovereign Lord, is for a mere human!

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.

Psalm 31:19

How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you.

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

Luke 20:36

and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.

John 11:52

and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.

John 15:21

They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:10

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

1 John 4:17

This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.