1 John 3:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

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  • John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 4:5-6 : 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Chaldee word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!"
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Ps 36:7-9 : 7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things{TR adds "to you"} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
  • Rom 9:25-26 : 25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved." 26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
  • Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for those who fear you, Which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, Before the sons of men!
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba{Abba is a Chaldee word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Rom 8:21 : 21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
  • Ps 89:1-2 : 1 > I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 2 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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    6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

    9By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

    10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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    2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

    3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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    17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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    9Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

    11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

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    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

  • 1 John 3:13-14
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    13Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

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    16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

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    19We love Him, because he first loved us.

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    6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Chaldee word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!"

    7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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    12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

    13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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    16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

  • 1 John 3:23
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    23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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    12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • Eph 1:6
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    6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

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    20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  • Rom 8:14
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    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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    28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • John 1:18
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    18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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    3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

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    21Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

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    25Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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    4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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    3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

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    3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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    35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

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    8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--