1 John 3:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

The children of god

And

Matthew 13:38

John 8:44

Acts 13:10

Is

Neither

1 John 3:14

1 John 2:9

1 John 4:8

General references

Matthew 6:14

John 8:47

John 13:35

Bible References

The children of god

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands.

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirits that we are God's children;

So you must keep on following God's example, as dearly loved children of His,

And

the field is the world; the good seed are the members of the kingdom; the wild wheat seed are the followers of the wicked one.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

and said, "You expert in every form of deception and sleight-of-hand, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked!

Is

and no spiritual utterance which disowns Jesus can come from God; it is the utterance of Antichrist. You have heard that it is coming, and right now it is already in the world.

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

Neither

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness.

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

General references

"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."