1 John 3:1

New Living Translation

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

And now, Sovereign Lord, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving your servant a lasting dynasty! Do you deal with everyone this way, O Sovereign Lord?

Psalm 31:19

How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I thought to myself, ‘I would love to treat you as my own children!’ I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land— the finest possession in the world. I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father,’ and I wanted you never to turn from me.

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’

Luke 20:36

And they will never die again. In this respect they will be like angels. They are children of God and children of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

John 11:52

And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.

John 15:21

They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.

John 16:3

This is because they have never known the Father or me.

John 17:25

“O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.

John 3:16

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 8:19

For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

Romans 8:21

the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

Romans 8:32

Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

2 Corinthians 6:18

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

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 3:29

And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.

Colossians 3:3

For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

1 John 3:10

So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

1 John 4:17

And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.

Revelation 21:7

All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.