1 John 3:8 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁸ Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared—to undo the devil's work.

³⁸ The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

¹⁸ He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning!

⁴⁴ The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

³¹ The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,

¹¹ and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.

²⁰ And God, who is the source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you.

² in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

¹⁵ He disarmed the principalities and dominions and displayed them openly, triumphing over them through him.

¹⁴ Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

⁵ You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him.

¹⁰ This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

⁶ and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day,

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, ³ and hurled him into the abyss and he closed it and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the heathen astray any longer, until the thousand years are over; after that he has to be released for a little while.

¹⁰ and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever.

¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.