1 John 3:9 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁹ No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

¹³ owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

³ Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

²⁰ for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

² Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

¹⁷ For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

² in the hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised ages ago,

²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

²⁹ If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.

⁴ for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.

¹⁸ We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.