Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
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- KJV Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
- BSB Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
- NKJV Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
- NASB Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
- NLT Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.
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- John 1:12–13But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
- 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
- John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
- 1 Jn 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
- 1 Pet 1:22–23Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
- 1 Jn 5:4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
- 1 Jn 3:9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
- Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- 1 Jn 2:22–23Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
- John 3:3Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
- John 15:23He who hates me, hates my Father also.
- Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- 1 Jn 2:10He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Jn 4:20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
- 1 Jn 4:14–15We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- 1 Jn 4:2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
- Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Acts 8:36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
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