1 John 3:1-3

New Century Version

We Are God’s Children

3 The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children. The reason the people in the world do not know us is that they have not known him. ² Dear friends, now we are children of God, and we have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him, because we will see him as he really is. ³ Christ is pure, and all who have this hope in Christ keep themselves pure like Christ.