1 John 3:1

The Father has lavished such love that we are called his children, a status the world cannot comprehend. Adoption is the wonder of the gospel.

Cross-references · 25

• John 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
• Gal 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 6:18I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
• Gal 4:5–6that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
• John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
• Ps 36:7–9How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
• 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Rev 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
• Rom 8:14–17For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
• Rom 9:25–26As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
• Rom 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• Col 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Rom 8:21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
• 2 Sam 7:19This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!
• Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
• Ps 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!
• Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
• Hos 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.’

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