^{1 Ref} Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

^{2 Ref} Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

^{3 Ref} Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.