1 John 3:10

Weymouth NT

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

Cross References

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world; the good seed–these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.

Luke 6:35

Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

John 1:12

But all who have received Him, to them –that is, to those who trust in His name– He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

John 8:44

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth–for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

John 8:47

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children.«

Acts 13:10

said, »You who are full of every kind of craftiness and unscrupulous cunning –you son of the Devil and foe to all that is right– will you never cease to misrepresent the straight paths of the Lord?

Romans 13:8

Owe nothing to any one except mutual love; for he who loves his fellow man has satisfied the demands of Law.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

Colossians 3:14

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

1 Timothy 1:5

But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

1 John 3:1

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us –that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us– because it has not known Him.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

1 John 4:21

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

1 John 4:6

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

1 John 4:8

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one.

1 John 5:2

The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not follow wrong examples, but right ones. He who habitually does what is right is a child of God: he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God.