1 John 3:10

New International Version

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.

Cross References

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

1 John 4:21

And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Matthew 13:38

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

John 8:47

Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

1 John 4:6

We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

Ephesians 5:1

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children

1 John 5:2

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

Acts 13:10

“You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

1 John 5:19

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

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.

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—

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.

Romans 13:8

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Colossians 3:14

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 John 3:1

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.

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.