1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and those who love the Father also love his children. New birth produces both true faith and love for God's family.

Cross-references · 22

• 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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