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.

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

Little children, let no man lead you astray. He who is doing righteousness is righteous, just as that man is righteous.

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.