1 John 3:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

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  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
  • 1 John 4:3-4 : 3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
  • 1 John 4:6 : 6 We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • John 8:47 : 47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 and said,“You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness– will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
  • Rom 8:16-17 : 16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
  • 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness. 10 The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
  • 1 John 3:7-8 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous. 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.
  • 1 John 5:2 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • 1 John 3:14-15 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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  • 1 John 3:11-18
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    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

    13Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

    15Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

    17But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

  • 1 John 3:4-9
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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

    8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

    9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

    11But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:6-8
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    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

    8The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

    18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

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    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

  • John 3:19-21
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    19Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

    20For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • 1 John 4:3
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    3but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though they are strangers).

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

  • 1 John 5:10
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    10(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

  • John 3:36
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    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.