1 John 3:10 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁰ By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

³⁸ The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked,

³⁵ But love your enemies, and show them kindness, and lend to them, never despairing. Then your reward shall be great, and you shall be Sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the thankless and the bad.

⁴⁴ As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

⁴⁷ He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

¹⁰ "You incarnation of deceit and all fraud! You son of the Devil! You opponent of all that is good! Will you never cease to divert 'the straight paths of the Lord'? Listen!

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.

¹ Therefore imitate God, as his dear children,

⁹ He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now. ¹⁰ He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble;

²⁹ Knowing him to be righteous, you realize that every one who lives righteously has received the new Life from him.

⁷ My Children, do not let any one mislead you. He who lives righteously is righteous--as Christ is righteous. ⁸ He who lives sinfully belongs to the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the first. It was for this that the Son of God appeared, that he might undo the Devil's work.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death. ¹⁵ Every one who hates his Brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has Immortal Life within him.

³ while all inspiration that does not acknowledge Jesus is not inspiration from God. It is the inspiration of the Anti-Christ; you have heard that it was to come, and it is now already in the world. ⁴ You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁶ We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

⁸ He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

²¹ Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

² By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.

¹⁹ We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.

¹¹ Dear friend, take what is good for your example, not what is bad. The man who does what is good is from God; the man who does what is bad has never seen God.