1John 3:1 Cross References

1 John 3:1

1: See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.

John 1:12

  1. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

Galatians 3:26

  1. So you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5

  1. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
  2. And because you Gentiles have become his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father.

2 Corinthians 6:18

  1. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "

John 17:25

  1. "O righteous Father, the world doesn't know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.

John 3:16

  1. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Psalms 36:7

  1. How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.
  2. You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your rivers of delight.
  3. For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.

Revelation 21:7

  1. All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

1 John 4:9

  1. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.
  2. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Ephesians 3:18

  1. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.
  2. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Galatians 3:29

  1. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.

Romans 9:25

  1. Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea, "Those who were not my people, I will now call my people. And I will love those whom I did not love before."
  2. And, "Once they were told, 'You are not my people.' But now he will say, 'You are children of the living God.'"

Ephesians 2:4

  1. But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much,
  2. that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved!)

Romans 8:14

  1. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
  2. So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."
  3. For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children.
  4. And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

John 15:18

  1. "When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you.
  2. The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don't. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.

Romans 5:8

  1. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

John 16:3

  1. This is because they have never known the Father or me.

Romans 8:32

  1. Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?

Colossians 3:3

  1. For you died when Christ died, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

Psalms 31:19

  1. Your goodness is so great! You have stored up great blessings for those who honor you. You have done so much for those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

Jeremiah 3:19

  1. "I thought to myself, `I would love to treat you as my own children!' I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land--the finest inheritance in the world. I looked forward to your calling me `Father,' and I thought you would never turn away from me again.

2 Samuel 7:19

  1. And now, Sovereign LORD, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving me a lasting dynasty! Do you deal with everyone this way, O Sovereign LORD?

Romans 8:21

  1. All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

Psalms 89:1

  1. I will sing of the tender mercies of the LORD forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
  2. Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

Hosea 1:10

  1. Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'
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