1 John 3:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

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  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
  • 1 John 4:3-4 : 3 And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now. 4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
  • 1 John 4:6 : 6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • John 8:47 : 47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?
  • Rom 8:16-17 : 16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God: 17 And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
  • 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
  • 1 John 3:7-8 : 7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright; 8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
  • 1 John 5:2 : 2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
  • 1 John 3:14-15 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. 15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

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  • 1 John 3:11-18
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    11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

    12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

    13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

    14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

    15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

    16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

    17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • 1 John 3:4-9
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    4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

    5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

    6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

    7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

    8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

    9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

    10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

    11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

  • 1 John 4:6-8
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

    18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

    2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • John 3:19-21
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    19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

    20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

    21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • 1 John 4:3
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    3 And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5 My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

  • 1 John 5:10
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    10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

  • John 3:36
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    36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7 Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.