1 John 3:10
This is how God's children and the devil's children can be distinguished: all those who don't do what's right don't belong to God, nor do those who don't love their fellow Christians.
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11The message you've heard from the beginning is simply this: we should love one another.
Cross References
Luke 6:35No: love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting to be repaid anything. Then you will receive a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, for he is kind to ungrateful and wicked people.
John 8:47Anyone who belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God.”
Romans 8:16The Spirit himself agrees with us that we're God's children.
1 John 2:9Those who say they live in the light but hate a fellow Christian still have the darkness inside them.
1 John 3:7Dear friends, don't let anyone fool you: those who do what is right are right, in the same way as Jesus is right.
1 John 4:3while every spirit that doesn't accept Jesus, that spirit isn't from God. In fact it is the spirit of the antichrist which you heard was coming, and which is already in the world.
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 →