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Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.
Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.
International Standard Version
This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.
A Conservative Version
By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are clearly identified: anyone who does not practice righteousness [who does not seek God’s will in thought, action, and purpose] is not of God, nor is the one who does not [unselfishly]
An Understandable Version
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil can be recognized: All those who do not continue to do what is right do not belong to God. Also, the person who does not continue to love his brother [or sister does not belong to God].
Anderson New Testament
By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.
Common New Testament
By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
Daniel Mace New Testament
In this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: he that does not practise virtue, and fraternal benevolence, is not of God.
Darby Translation
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
By this the children of God are discovered, and the children of the devil: whoever works not righteousness, is not of God, neither he who loves not his brother.
Godbey New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.
John Wesley New Testament
Hereby the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever practiseth not righteousness is not of God; neither he that loveth not his brother.
Julia Smith Translation
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.
King James 2000
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.
Modern King James verseion
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.
Moffatt New Testament
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.
Montgomery New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who does not love his brother.
Noyes New Testament
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil. Whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.
Sawyer New Testament
By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.
The Emphasized Bible
Herein, are, manifest, the children of God, and the children of the adversary: Whoever is not doing righteousness, is not of God, nor yet he that is not loving his brother.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.
Twentieth Century New Testament
By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.
Webster
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Weymouth New Testament
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
Williams New Testament
This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.
World English Bible
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
Worrell New Testament
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;
Worsley New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doth not practise righteousness, and he who loveth not his brother, is not of God:
Youngs Literal Translation
In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,
Themes
Children » Lambs of the fold » Of God
Children » Lambs of the fold » Of the devil
Children » The children of the lord
Life » Lessons of » Manifested
Love » Those that do not love others
Love to man » The wicked devoid of
Names » Of the wicked » Children of the devil
Righteousness » The wicked » Do not
Satan » Confess Christ » Children of
The Devil » The wicked » Are the children of
The fruit of righteousness » Those that do not do righteousness
Titles and names of saints » Children of God
Interlinear
Phaneros
Pas
Poieo
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:10
Images 1 John 3:10
Prayers for 1 John 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children Of God
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. 10 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. 11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
Cross References
1 John 4:8
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
3 John 1:11
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.
Matthew 13:38
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;
John 8:44
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.
1 John 4:6
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.
1 John 4:21
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.
Luke 6:35
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 8:47
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
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?
Romans 8:16-17
The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:
Ephesians 5:1
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
1 John 2:9-10
He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
1 John 2:29
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
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
1 John 3:14-15
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.
1 John 4:3-4
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 5:2
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
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.