1 John 3:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

Cross References

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Psalm 16:11

You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.

Psalm 31:19

O how abundant is your goodness that you have laid up for those who fear you and accomplished for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of everyone!

Isaiah 56:5

I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap;

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Luke 17:30

it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 20:36

Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God.

John 17:24

Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Romans 8:16

it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 8:18

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:19

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God,

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we have borne the image of the one of dust, we will also bear the image of the one of heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,

Galatians 3:26

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

Galatians 4:6

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Philippians 3:21

He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

2 Peter 1:4

Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust and may become participants of the divine nature.

1 John 2:28

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given 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

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

1 John 3:21

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God,

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

Revelation 2:28

“even as I also received authority from my Father. To the one who conquers I will also give the morning star.

Revelation 22:4

they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.