1 John 3

1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:19 · Ps 31:19 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 89:1 · Jer 3:19 · Hos 1:10 · +19 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

2Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.Cross-references: Job 19:26 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 31:19 · Isa 56:5 · Mal 3:2 · +21 more

3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.Cross-references: Matt 5:48 · Luke 6:36 · Acts 15:9 · Rom 5:4 · Rom 15:12 · 2Cor 7:1 · +10 more

4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.Cross-references: Num 15:31 · 1Sam 15:24 · 1Ki 8:47 · 1Chr 10:13 · 2Chr 24:20 · Isa 53:8 · +9 more

5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.Cross-references: Isa 53:4 · Hos 14:2 · Matt 1:21 · Luke 23:41 · Luke 23:47 · John 1:29 · +23 more

6Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.Cross-references: John 15:4 · 2Cor 3:18 · 2Cor 4:6 · 1John 2:4 · 1John 2:28 · 1John 3:2 · +4 more

7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.Cross-references: Ps 45:7 · Ps 72:1 · Ps 106:3 · Ezek 18:5 · Matt 5:20 · Luke 1:75 · +20 more

8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Isa 27:1 · Matt 13:38 · Mark 1:24 · Luke 10:18 · John 8:44 · +14 more

9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.Cross-references: Job 19:28 · Matt 7:18 · John 1:13 · John 3:3 · Acts 4:20 · Rom 6:2 · +8 more

10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.Cross-references: Matt 13:38 · Luke 6:35 · John 8:44 · John 8:47 · Acts 13:10 · Rom 8:16 · +12 more

11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—Cross-references: John 13:34 · John 15:12 · Gal 6:2 · Eph 5:2 · 1Thess 4:9 · 1Tim 1:5 · +8 more

12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.Cross-references: Gen 4:4 · Gen 4:25 · 1Sam 18:14 · 1Sam 19:4 · 1Sam 22:14 · Ps 37:12 · +20 more

13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.Cross-references: Eccl 5:8 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 24:9 · Mark 13:13 · Luke 6:22 · Luke 21:17 · +11 more

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.Cross-references: Ps 16:3 · Prov 21:16 · Matt 25:40 · Luke 15:24 · Luke 15:32 · John 5:24 · +24 more

15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.Cross-references: Gen 27:41 · Lev 19:16 · 2Sam 13:22 · Prov 26:24 · Matt 5:21 · Matt 5:28 · +10 more

16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.Cross-references: Matt 20:28 · John 3:16 · John 10:15 · John 13:34 · John 15:12 · Acts 20:28 · +14 more

17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Prov 12:10 · Prov 19:17 · Prov 28:9 · Isa 58:7 · Luke 3:11 · +8 more

18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.Cross-references: Ex 33:21 · Ezek 33:31 · Matt 25:41 · Rom 12:9 · 1Cor 13:4 · Gal 5:13 · +8 more

19And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,Cross-references: Isa 32:17 · John 13:35 · John 18:37 · Rom 4:21 · Rom 8:38 · 2Tim 1:12 · +6 more

20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.Cross-references: Job 27:6 · Job 33:12 · Ps 44:20 · Ps 90:8 · Ps 139:1 · Jer 17:10 · +14 more

21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;Cross-references: Job 22:26 · Job 27:6 · Ps 7:3 · Ps 101:2 · 1Cor 4:4 · 2Cor 1:12 · +6 more

22so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.Cross-references: Ps 10:17 · Ps 34:4 · Ps 34:15 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 66:18 · Ps 145:18 · +28 more

23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Ps 2:12 · Matt 22:39 · Mark 9:7 · John 6:29 · John 13:34 · +12 more

24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.Cross-references: John 6:54 · John 14:21 · John 15:7 · John 17:21 · Rom 8:9 · 1Cor 3:16 · +9 more