1 SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 Cross References - Riverside
John 1:12
12 All who received him — to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.
John 15:18-19
John 16:3
3 These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.
John 17:25
25 Righteous Father, the world did not know thee, but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.
Romans 5:8
8 But God shows his own love to us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
Romans 8:14-17
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God.
17 And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:21
21 because the creation itself will be freed from the slavery of decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Romans 8:32
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things?
Romans 9:25-26
2 Corinthians 6:18
18 and will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord, the Ruler of all."
Galatians 3:26
26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29
29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 4:5-6
Ephesians 2:4-5
Ephesians 3:18-19
Colossians 3:3
3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 John 4:9-10
Revelation 21:7
7 He who conquers shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be to me a son.