1 John 3:1

See 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.

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In The King James Version

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

In Context

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.

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Cross References

Psalms 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Psalms 89:1I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

Romans 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:1

The apostle here magnifies the love of God in our adoption, ver. 1, 2 . He thereupon argues for holiness ( ver. 3 ), and against sin, ver. 4-19 . He presses brotherly love, ver. 11-18 . How to assure our hearts before God, ver. 19-22 . The precept of faith, ver. 23 . And the good of obedience, ver. 24 . Read the whole commentary →

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