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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

1 John 3:10

So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoption;   Commandments;   Depravity of Man;   Hatred;   Holiness;   Malice;   Perfection;   Righteousness;   Satan;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Satan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Devil;   Life;   Names;   Righteous-Wicked;   Satan;   Titles and Names;   Whosoever;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Love;   Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devil, the;   Love to Man;   Righteousness;   Titles and Names of Saints;   Titles and Names of the Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Body;   Child;   Election;   Ethics;   Love;   Satan;   Sin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   New Birth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Cain;   Devil;   John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Devil ;   Eternal Life (2);   John Epistles of;   Justice (2);   Regeneration;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Socialism;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vagabond;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Devil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;   Child;   Children of God;   Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Gnosticism;   Johannine Theology, the;   John, the Epistles of;   Love;   Manifest;   Regeneration;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So we can see who God's children are and who the devil's children are. These are the ones who are not God's children: those who don't do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God's family.
Revised Standard Version
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.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
In this are the children of god knowen and the children of the devyll. Whosoever doeth not rightewesnes is not of God nether he that loveth not his brother.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.
New Century Version
So we can see who God's children are and who the devil's children are: Those who do not do what is right are not God's children, and those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not God's children.
Update Bible Version
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: anyone not doing righteousness is not of God, neither is he that is not loving his brother.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
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.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
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.
Weymouth's 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In this thing the sones of God ben knowun, and the sones of the feend. Ech man that is not iust, is not of God, and he that loueth not his brothir.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
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.
Amplified Bible
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] love his [believing] 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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is how one can distinguish clearly between God's children and those of the Adversary: everyone who does not continue doing what is right is not from God. Likewise, anyone who fails to keep loving his brother is not from 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.
International Standard Version
This is how God's children and the devil's children are distinguished.are revealed">[fn] No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.1 John 2:29; 4:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
In this are distinguished the sons of Aloha from the sons of Satana; every one who doeth not righteousness, nor loveth his brother, is not of Aloha.
Murdock Translation
By this are the children of God discriminated from the children of Satan. Every one that practiseth not righteousness, and that loveth not his brother, is not of God:
King James Version (1611)
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the deuill: whosoeuer doeth not righteousnesse, is not of God, neither hee that loueth not his brother.
New Life Bible
This is the way you can know who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. The person who does not keep on doing what is right and does not love his brother does not belong to God.
New Revised Standard
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.
English Standard Version
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In this are the children of God knowen, and the children of the deuil: whosoeuer doeth not righteousnesse, is not of God, neither he that loueth not his brother.
George Lamsa Translation
In this the children of God can be distinguished from the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness and does not love his brother, does not belong to God.
J.B. Rotherham 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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In this are ye children of God knowe, and the chyldren of the deuyll: Whosoeuer doth not ryghteousnesse, is not of God, neither he that loueth not his brother.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.
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.
Lexham English 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.
Literal Translation
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God; also the one not loving his brother.
Young's 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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
By this are the children of God knowne & the children of the deuell. Who so euer doeth not righteousnes, is not of God, nether he thath loueth not his brother.
Mace New Testament (1729)
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.
New English Translation
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 King James Version
Matthew 22:39">[xr] In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
Simplified Cowboy Version
This is the truth about those who ride for God and those who ride for the Devil. Those who do not do what is right or love others do not ride for God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Contextual Overview

4 Everyone who sins is breaking God's law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 5 And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. 6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is. 7 Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. 8 But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Those who have been born into God's family do not make a practice of sinning, because God's life is in them. So they can't keep on sinning, because they are children of God. 10 So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the children of God: 1 John 5:2, Luke 6:35, Romans 8:16, Romans 8:17, Ephesians 5:1

and: Matthew 13:38, John 8:44, Acts 13:10

whosoever: 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:8, 1 John 2:29

is: 1 John 4:3, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 4:6, 1 John 5:19, John 8:47, 3 John 1:11

neither: 1 John 3:14, 1 John 3:15, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:10, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:15 - thy seed Genesis 4:2 - a keeper Genesis 37:4 - hated him Deuteronomy 13:13 - the children Deuteronomy 14:1 - the children Psalms 112:4 - righteous Proverbs 11:19 - righteousness Isaiah 26:7 - way Isaiah 57:3 - sons Ezekiel 14:20 - by Ezekiel 16:3 - Thy birth Zephaniah 3:13 - not Matthew 3:7 - O generation Matthew 5:22 - his brother Matthew 6:14 - General Matthew 7:18 - cannot Matthew 12:34 - generation Matthew 25:41 - prepared Luke 16:8 - children of light John 13:35 - General Acts 24:25 - righteousness Romans 12:10 - kindly Ephesians 2:2 - the children Ephesians 5:9 - righteousness Hebrews 13:1 - General 1 John 4:7 - let

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
Genesis 3:7
At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:17
And to the man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
Genesis 3:18
It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
Exodus 3:6
I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that Aaron had let the people get completely out of control, much to the amusement of their enemies.
Job 23:15
No wonder I am so terrified in his presence. When I think of it, terror grips me.
Psalms 119:120
I tremble in fear of you; I stand in awe of your regulations.
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. "Who can live with this devouring fire?" they cry. "Who can survive this all-consuming fire?"
Isaiah 47:3
You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In this the children of God are manifest,.... By regenerating grace, and not sinning, in the sense before explained, in consequence of it: adoption is an act of God's grace and sovereign will; it is secret in his own heart, and is secured in divine predestination, and in the covenant of grace, and is antecedent to regeneration: regeneration and faith do not make men the children of God, but manifest them to be so; adoption makes them the children of God, and entitles them to the inheritance; regeneration gives them the nature of the children of God, and makes them meet for it, and manifests their right unto it; not to the men of the world, but to themselves and other saints:

and the children of the devil; such as imitate him, do his will and his lusts, and are openly under his power and influence; these are distinguishable from regenerate persons, and the children of God, by their lives and conversations; so the people of the nations of the world are called, בנוי, "the children of Samael", and the serpent, by the Jews m, which are with them the names of the devil.

Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God: that is, he does; not appear to be born of God, who does not by faith lay hold on the righteousness of Christ for his justification before God, and acceptance with him; and who does not do works of righteousness in faith from a principle of love, and with a view to the glory of God; for where regenerating grace is, there will be such graces and such practices:

neither he that loveth not his brother; for as he that loveth God, and Christ, and the brethren, appears manifestly to be born again, and to have passed from death to life, so he that does not is in darkness, in a state of unregeneracy, and walks and continues therein; for was he born again, he would be taught of God to love the saints; see 1 John 4:7.

m Raya Mehimna in Zohar in Lev. fol. 34. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In this the children of God are manifest ... - That is, this furnishes a test of their true character. The test is found in doing righteousness, and in the love of the brethren. The former he had illustrated; the latter he now proceeds to illustrate. The general idea is, that if a person is not truly a righteous person, and does not love the brethren, he cannot be a child of God. Perhaps by the phrase in this, using a pronoun in the singular number, he means to intimate that an important part of righteousness consists in brotherly love.

Whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God - In 1 John 3:7, he had said that “he that doeth righteousness is of God.”

If that is true, then what he here affirms must be true also, that a man who does not righteousness is not of God. The general idea is the same, that no one can be a true Christian who is not in fact a righteous man.

Neither he that loveth not his brother - The illustration of this point continues to 1 John 3:18. The general sense is, that brotherly love is essential to the Christian character, and that he who does not possess it cannot be a Christian. On the nature and importance of brotherly love as an evidence of piety, see the notes at John 13:34-35.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. In this the children of God are manifest — Here is a fearful text. Who is a child of the devil? He that commits sin. Who is a child of God? He that works righteousness. By this text we shall stand or fall before God, whatever our particular creed may say to the contrary.

Neither he that loveth not his brother. — No man is of God who is not ready on all emergencies to do any act of kindness for the comfort, relief, and support of any human being. For, as God made of one blood an the nations of men to dwell upon the face of the whole earth, so all are of one family; and consequently all are brethren, and should love as brethren.


 
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