1 John 3:10
By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.
Cross References
Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.
John 8:47He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.
Romans 8:16The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God.
1 John 2:9He who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.
1 John 3:7Little children, let no man lead you astray. He who is doing righteousness is righteous, just as that man is righteous.
1 John 4:3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:5-11
The Mark of God's Children. ( a. d. 80.) 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this… Read the whole commentary →