John 1:12

To everyone who received Jesus by believing in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. Faith in Christ is how one enters God's family.

Cross-references · 21

• Gal 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
• 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• 2 Cor 6:17–18Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Gal 4:6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
• John 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• Matt 10:40He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
• 1 Jn 5:12–13He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Isa 56:5I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut off.
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• 2 Pet 1:4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
• 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.’
• Matt 12:21In his name, the nations will hope.”
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• 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.’
• John 11:52and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
• Acts 3:16By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
• John 1:7The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
• Matt 18:5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
• John 2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

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