1 John 3:1 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.

¹² But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

³ They will do this, because they have not learned to know the Father, or even me.

²⁵ O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

⁸ But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

¹⁴ All who are guided by the Spirit of God are Sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.' ¹⁶ The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God's children, ¹⁷ And if children, then heirs-heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, since we share Christ's sufferings in order that we may also share his Glory.

²¹ Yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the Glory of the Children of God.

³² God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?

²⁵ This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved. ²⁶ And in the very place where it was said to them-"Ye are not my People", they shall be called Sons of the Living God.'

¹⁸ And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters," says the Lord, the Ruler of all.'

²⁶ For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham's offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.

⁵ To ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons. ⁶ And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry--'Abba, our Father.'

⁴ Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ Even though we were 'dead' because of our offenses, gave Life to us in giving Life to the Christ. (By God's loving-kindness you have been saved.)

¹⁸ Have the power to comprehend in all its width and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ And to understand--though it surpasses all understanding--the love of the Christ; and so be filled to the full with God himself.

³ For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.

⁹ The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him. ¹⁰ His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

⁷ He who conquers shall enter into possession of these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my Son.