1 John 3:10
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
11For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.
Cross References
Luke 6:35Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
John 8:47He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."
Romans 8:16The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;
1 John 2:9Any one who professes to be in the light and yet hates his brother man is still in darkness.
1 John 3:7Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.
1 John 4:3and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it 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 →