1 John 2:13

John addresses fathers, young men, and children, affirming what each knows and has overcome in Christ. Believers at every stage have real spiritual standing.

Cross-references · 32

• John 14:7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
• 1 Jn 2:14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
• Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
• 1 Jn 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
• 1 Jn 1:1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• Eph 6:10–12Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
• Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
• 1 Jn 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• Prov 20:29The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
• John 8:19“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
• Matt 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
• 1 Jn 2:12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
• Titus 2:6In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
• John 14:9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
• 1 Pet 5:8–9Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• John 8:54–55Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say ‘He is our God.’
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• Matt 13:38The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
• Ps 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
• Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
• 1 Tim 5:1Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
• 1 Jn 2:3–4By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• Zech 9:17How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
• John 17:21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
• Ps 148:12young men and maidens, old and young together.

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