1 John 3:10
Good News Translation
Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

New Revised Standard Version
The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love their brothers and sisters.

Contemporary English Version
You can tell God's children from the devil's children, because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right or to love each other.

New American Bible
In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.

the children of God.

1 John 5:2 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Romans 8:16,17 For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God. . . .

Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

and.

Matthew 13:38 And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Acts 13:10 Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.

whosoever.

1 John 3:7,8 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. . . .

1 John 2:29 If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

is.

1 John 4:3,4,6 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world. . . .

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

John 8:47 He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

3 John 1:11 Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.

neither.

1 John 3:14,15 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. . . .

1 John 2:9,10 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now. . . .

1 John 4:8,21 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity. . . .

Context
Children of God
9Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother. 11For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.

Matthew 13:38
And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.

John 1:12
But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

John 11:52
And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God that were dispersed.

Romans 8:16
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.

Colossians 3:14
But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

1 John 2:9
He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

1 John 3:2
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:8
He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.

3 John 1:11
Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.

1 John 3:9
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