Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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1 John 3 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 4 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Numbers 27 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
Job 14 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Deuteronomy 10 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
1 John 4 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 5 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 2 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Romans 9 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Deuteronomy 11 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Matthew 11 27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
John 1 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Deuteronomy 13 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Philippians 2 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
1 John 3 10 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.
Deuteronomy 33 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Genesis 22 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Ephesians 5 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ezekiel 24 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
Romans 4 17 As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
John 8 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
1 John 2 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
John 15 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
1 Thessalonians 4 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Hebrews 8 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
John 13 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 17 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Genesis 42 11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
2 Chronicles 6 30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:
Psalms 33 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Lamentations 5 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Joshua 23 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Jeremiah 32 18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
Genesis 48 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
1 John 4 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Ezekiel 20 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
John 5 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Deuteronomy 7 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
2 Chronicles 30 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
John 1 18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Proverbs 3 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Romans 9 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Isaiah 64 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah 55 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
1 John 4 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Isaiah 63 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
1 Kings 8 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;
Romans 5 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 1 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Deuteronomy 4 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;