John 1:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.

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.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

Matthew 12:21

And in his name the gentiles will hope.”

Matthew 18:5

Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.

John 1:7

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

John 11:52

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

John 2:23

When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.

John 20:31

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

John 3:18

Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Acts 3:16

And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.

Romans 8:14

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

Romans 8:16

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

Romans 8:19

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

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!”

Colossians 2:6

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in 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 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 3:2

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.

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.