1 John 3:7

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Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

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  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct. 16 For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
  • Ps 72:1-7 : 1 God, grant your judgments to the king and your righteousness to the king's son. 2 He will judge your people with righteousness and your afflicted ones with justice. 3 The mountains will bring peace to the people, and the hills will bring it in righteousness. 4 He will judge the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. 5 They will fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. 6 He will come down like rain upon cut grass, like showers that water the earth. 7 In his days, the righteous one will flourish, and peace will abound as long as the moon endures.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of righteousness.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are those who keep justice and do what is righteous at all times.
  • Ezek 18:5-9 : 5 If a man is righteous and does what is just and right, 6 he does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel; he does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her impurity. 7 He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked. 8 He does not lend at interest or take a profit; he withholds his hand from injustice and judges fairly between parties. 9 He walks in my statutes and faithfully keeps my rules—he is righteous; he will surely live, declares the Sovereign Lord.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
  • Luke 1:75 : 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation, the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 He will repay each person according to their deeds. 7 To those who seek glory, honor, and immortality by persistence in doing good, He will give eternal life. 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. By His wounds, you have been healed.
  • Rom 6:16-18 : 16 Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality,
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap. 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.)
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 But about the Son He says, 'Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness will be the scepter of Your kingdom.'
  • Heb 7:2 : 2 Abraham also gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means 'King of Righteousness'; then also, he is 'King of Salem,' which means 'King of Peace.'
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28And now, dear children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

    29If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  • 1 John 3:8-12
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    8The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this reason: to destroy the works of the devil.

    9No one born of God practices sin, for His seed abides in them; they cannot keep on sinning, because they have been born of God.

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

    12Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

  • 1 John 3:1-6
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

    3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

    4Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

    5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

    6No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

    7But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

    8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

    9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • John 3:20-21
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    20For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

    21But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly seen that their deeds have been done in God.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17All wrongdoing is sin, and yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

    18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.

    19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

    19By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

    6Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.

  • Prov 20:11
    71%

    11Even a young person is known by their actions—whether their conduct is pure and upright.

  • 1 John 5:21
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    21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits iniquity, they will die because of it.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The righteous person walks in their integrity; blessed are their children after them.

  • 1 John 5:1
    69%

    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

  • 1 John 2:12-13
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    12I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.

    13I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

  • 1 John 2:21-22
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    21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

    22Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.

  • Ezek 33:12
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    12Therefore, son of man, say to your people, 'The righteousness of the righteous person will not save them on the day of their transgression, nor will the wickedness of the wicked person cause them to fall on the day they turn from their wickedness. The righteous person cannot live by their righteousness on the day they sin.'

  • Ps 15:2
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    2The one who walks blamelessly, does what is right, and speaks the truth from his heart.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.