Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
2 Now are we the sons of God He comes now to what every one knows and feels himself; for though the ungodly may not entice us to give up our hope, yet our present condition is very short of the glow of God’s children; for as to our body we are dust and a shadow, and death is always before our eyes; we are...
Behold the condescending love of the eternal Father, that He is not ashamed to call us sons, we who by nature are heirs of sin and curse, by practice children of corruption and ingratitude. The world does not know our dignity or advancement; walking by sight, it cannot perceive what we possess in Christ or what we are entitled to.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 John 3:1-3
Beloved, now are we the sons of God,.... By adoption, secretly in God's predestination, and in the covenant of grace; and openly in regeneration, through faith in Christ, and by the testimony of the Spirit: and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; though they are sons, they do not appear now as such, as they will do, when they shall be introduced...