John 1:12

New International Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.

Isaiah 56:5

to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.

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.

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.’

Matthew 10:40

“Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

Matthew 12:21

In his name the nations will put their hope.”

Matthew 18:5

And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

John 1:11

He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.

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 2:23

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.

John 20:31

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

John 3:18

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Acts 3:16

By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.

Romans 8:14

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

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

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”

Colossians 2:6

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

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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 3:10

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 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 3:23

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.