1 John 3 (NET)

1 John 3:1¹(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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:12Gal 3:262 Cor 6:18Gal 4:5-6John 3:16John 17:25Ps 36:7-91 John 4:9-10John 15:18-19Rev 21:7

1 John 3:2²Dear 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:21Col 3:41 Cor 13:122 Cor 3:18Ps 17:15Rom 8:291 Cor 15:49Rev 22:42 Pet 1:41 Cor 2:9

1 John 3:3³And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:11 John 2:62 Pet 3:14Matt 5:48Heb 12:14Heb 7:26Acts 15:9Col 1:5Rom 5:4-52 Pet 1:4

1 John 3:4⁴Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:17Rom 3:20Rom 4:15Num 15:311 John 3:8-92 Cor 12:21Dan 9:11Jas 2:9-11Rom 7:7-131 Sam 15:24

1 John 3:5⁵And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:21Heb 9:281 Pet 2:241 Pet 3:18Heb 9:26John 1:291 John 1:71 John 4:9-14Isa 53:4-12Rev 1:5

1 John 3:6⁶Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:3 John 1:111 John 2:41 John 3:91 John 4:8John 15:4-71 John 3:21 John 5:181 John 2:282 Cor 4:62 Cor 3:18

1 John 3:7⁷Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:291 Pet 1:15-16Rom 2:131 John 3:31 John 2:11 John 2:26Ps 45:7Acts 10:35Gal 6:7-8Eph 5:9

1 John 3:8⁸The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:14John 8:44Col 2:15John 12:31John 16:11Rom 16:202 Pet 2:4Mark 1:24Eph 2:2Isa 27:1

1 John 3:9⁹Everyone 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:181 Pet 1:231 John 5:1John 1:131 John 2:29Matt 7:18John 3:31 John 5:4Gal 5:171 John 4:7

1 John 3:10¹⁰By 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:83 John 1:111 John 4:21John 8:44Luke 6:35Matt 13:381 John 3:7-8John 8:471 John 4:3-41 John 4:6

1 John 3:11¹¹For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:122 John 1:51 John 4:71 John 4:211 Pet 3:8John 13:34-35Eph 5:21 Pet 4:81 Thess 4:91 John 1:5

1 John 3:12¹²not 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:4Gen 4:4-15Prov 29:27Gen 4:25Jude 1:11Luke 11:51Prov 29:10Ps 37:121 John 2:13-14John 15:19-25

1 John 3:13¹³Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:18-19John 17:14Luke 21:172 Tim 3:12Jas 4:4Luke 6:22Mark 13:13Eccl 5:8John 16:33John 7:7

1 John 3:14¹⁴We 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:2John 13:35John 5:241 John 4:20-211 Thess 4:91 John 4:7-81 Pet 1:22Heb 13:1John 15:121 John 3:23

1 John 3:15¹⁵Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:21-22Prov 26:24-26Rev 21:8John 8:44Lev 19:16-18Acts 23:14Jas 4:1-2Acts 23:12Gal 5:20-21Jas 1:15

1 John 3:16¹⁶We 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:9-11Eph 5:2John 13:34John 3:16Rom 5:8John 15:12-13Rev 1:51 Pet 3:18Acts 20:28Matt 20:28

1 John 3:17¹⁷But 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?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:16Isa 58:7-101 John 4:20Deut 15:7-11Prov 19:17Luke 3:112 Cor 9:5-9Jas 2:152 Cor 8:14-151 Tim 6:17-18

1 John 3:18¹⁸Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:15-16Rom 12:91 Pet 1:221 Cor 13:4-7Gal 5:13Gal 6:1-2Eph 4:1-3Matt 25:41-45Eph 4:151 Thess 1:3

1 John 3:19¹⁹And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:221 John 3:21Heb 6:10-11Isa 32:17John 18:371 John 1:82 Tim 1:12John 13:35Rom 4:211 John 3:14

1 John 3:20²⁰that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 139:1-4Jer 17:10Heb 4:131 Cor 4:41 John 4:4Jer 23:24John 10:29-30Ps 44:20-21Job 33:12Rev 2:23

1 John 3:21²¹Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:28Heb 4:162 Cor 1:12Ps 101:2Ps 7:3-51 John 5:141 John 4:17Heb 10:22Job 22:261 Cor 4:4

1 John 3:22²²and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:7John 9:311 John 5:14Matt 21:22Mark 11:24John 16:23-24Ps 34:4John 14:13Matt 7:7-8Prov 15:29

1 John 3:23²³Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 6:29John 13:341 Pet 1:22John 15:121 Pet 4:81 John 3:111 John 4:211 Thess 4:9Mark 9:7Eph 5:2

1 John 3:24²⁴And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:161 John 4:15-161 John 4:12-131 Cor 6:192 Tim 1:141 John 2:6John 14:21-23Rom 8:9-171 John 4:7John 17:21