1 John 5:20

The Son of God has come and given us understanding to know the true God, and we are in him through Jesus Christ, who is the true God and eternal life. Christ reveals and is himself the true God who gives us life.

Cross-references · 40

• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
• John 14:9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
• 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• John 1:1–3In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• John 20:28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
• 1 Jn 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
• Eph 1:17–19that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
• Rom 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
• 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,
• Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Col 2:2–3that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
• John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
• Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
• John 17:20–23Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
• John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
• Rev 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
• Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
• Rev 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
• Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
• John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
• John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Isa 45:14–15Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

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