1 John 3:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ Behold what sort of love the Father has given to us, in order that we might be called children of God. Because of this, the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in your eyes, O lord Jehovah, but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come and this too according to the manner of men, O lord Jehovah!

¹⁹ O 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!

⁷ How precious is your loving kindness, O God and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
⁸ They will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house and you will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. ⁹ Because the fountain of life is with you. We will see light in your light.

¹ I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah everlasting. I will make known your faithfulness to all generations with my mouth. ² Because I have said, Mercy will be built up everlasting. Your faithfulness you will establish in the very heavens.

¹⁹ But I said, How I will put you among the sons and give you a desirable land, a pleasant heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, You* will call me My Father and will not turn away from following me.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it will happen that, in the place where it was said to them, You* are not my people, it will be said to them, The sons of the living God.

¹² But as many as received him, he gave to them the authority to become children of God, to the believing ones in his name,

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but may have everlasting life.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first, then you. ¹⁹ If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, the world is hating you because of this.

³ And they will be doing these things to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

²⁵ O righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me;

⁸ But God is establishing his own love toward us, in that when we were still sinners, Christ died on our behalf.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit himself is testifying together with our spirit, that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed we are suffering together with him, in order that we might also be glorified together with him.

²¹ that even the creation itself will be made free away from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

³² Yet, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all, how will he not also be granting to us all things together with him?

²⁵ As he also says in Hosea, ‘I will be calling those who are not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.’ ²⁶ And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.’

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’

²⁶ For you are all sons of God, through the faith, in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ But if you are Christ’s, you are also Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

⁵ in order that he might buy those up who were under the law, in order that we might receive the sonship. \ulnone\nosupersub ⁶ And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace.

¹⁸ having been rooted and having been founded in love, in order that you may have strength to grab, together with all the holy-ones, of what is the width and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

³ For you died and the life you have, has been hidden together with the Christ in God.

⁹ In this, the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atonement on behalf of our sins.

⁷ He who overcomes will be inheriting these things, and I will be his God and he will be a son to me.