Verse 1

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Referenced Verses

  • John 8:42 : 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
  • 1 John 2:22-23 : 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
  • John 15:23 : 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • 1 John 4:2 : 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
  • 1 John 4:14-15 : 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
  • John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
  • 1 John 2:10 : 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.