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John 1:12
The 2026 edition cites 3 passages containing John 1:12, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
John 1:10-12
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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:
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 60
They who, having never heard the gospel, know not Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be saved, be they never so diligent to frame their lives…
John 1:11-12
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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:
Cited by 2 places in the Constitution
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 58
We are made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured by the application of them unto us, which is the work especially of God the Holy Ghost.
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 29
We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
John 1:12
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:
Cited by 11 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 3
- CF 11.2
Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ, and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but…
- CF 12.1
All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption: by which they are taken into…
- CF 14.2
By this faith, a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God Himself speaking therein; and acteth differently…
Testimony of the RPCNA 2
- T 12.2
Justification and adoption, although inseparably connected, are nevertheless distinct from one another. They are both acts of God’s free grace. They are both…
- T 12.4
There is a sense in which God is the Father of all men, because He created them. They are therefore obligated to love and seek the welfare of one another; yet…
Larger Catechism 4
- LC 32
The grace of God is manifested in the second covenant, in that he freely provideth and offereth to sinners a Mediator, and life and salvation by him; and…
- LC 72
Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner, by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of…
- LC 73
Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the fruits of it, nor…
- LC 74
Adoption is an act of the free grace of God, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, whereby all those that are justified are received into the number of his…