John 1:12

Weymouth NT

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;

Cross References

Matthew 10:40

»Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives Him who sent me.«

Matthew 12:21

And on His name shall the nations rest their hopes.«

Matthew 18:5

And whoever for my sake receives one young child such as this, receives me.

John 1:11

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.

John 1:7

He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light–so that all might believe through him.

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 2:23

Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the miracles He performed.

John 20:31

But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

John 3:18

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

Acts 3:16

It is His name – faith in that name being the condition– which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.

Romans 8:14

For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;

Romans 8:19

For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.

Galatians 3:26

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

Galatians 4:6

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry »Abba! our Father!«

Colossians 2:6

As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;

2 Peter 1:4

It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.

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 3:10

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.

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 3:23

And this is His command–that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.