What you have done so far was a little thing to you, Lord God, for you have also spoken about your servant’s house in the distant future. And this is a revelation for mankind, Lord God.
1 John 3:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him. American Standard Version (1901) Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Common English Bible See what kind of love the Father has given to us in that we should be called God’s children, and that is what we are! Because the world didn’t recognize him, it doesn’t recognize us. Catholic Public Domain Version See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. |
What you have done so far was a little thing to you, Lord God, for you have also spoken about your servant’s house in the distant future. And this is a revelation for mankind, Lord God.
I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.
For they can no longer die, because they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.
But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name,
and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they don’t know the one who sent me.
They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or me.
Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me.
For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.
that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.
He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty. ,
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.
‘You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.
Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is.
In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgement, because as he is, so also are we in this world.
The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.