1 John 3:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is.

Cross References

Matthew 5:8

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

Luke 17:30

It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.

Luke 20:36

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.

John 1:12

But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.

John 11:52

And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.

John 17:24

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God's children,

Romans 8:18

I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the Glory that is to be revealed and bestowed upon us.

Romans 8:19

All Nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the Sons of God.

Romans 8:29

For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

1 Corinthians 13:12

As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then-face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from Heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:9

It is what Scripture speaks of as-'What eye never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered the mind of man-even all that God has prepared for those who love him.'

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:17

The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us, in measure transcending thought, a weight of imperishable glory;

Galatians 3:26

For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:6

And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry--'Abba, our Father.'

Philippians 3:21

Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.

Colossians 3:4

When the Christ, who is our Life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Hebrews 9:28

so it is with the Christ. He was offered up once and for all, to 'bear away the sins of many'; and the second time he will appear--but without any burden of sin--to those who are waiting for him, to bring Salvation.

2 Peter 1:4

For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.

1 John 2:28

Yes, my Children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.

1 John 2:7

Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the Message to which you listened.

1 John 3:1

Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.

1 John 3:10

By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, then we approach God with confidence,

1 John 5:1

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.

Revelation 2:28

and I will give him the Morning Star.

Revelation 22:4

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