John 3:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.›

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  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
  • 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 ¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
  • Rev 3:1-2 : 1 ¶ ‹And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.› 2 ‹Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.›
  • Rev 3:15 : 15 ‹I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.›
  • 1 John 2:27-29 : 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 28 ¶ And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
  • 1 John 4:12-13 : 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
  • Ps 1:1-3 : 1 ¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 ¶ Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 ¶ NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
  • Isa 26:12 : 12 ¶ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
  • Hos 14:8 : 8 ¶ Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, ‹Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!›
  • John 5:39 : 39 ‹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.›
  • John 15:4-5 : 4 ‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.› 5 ‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›
  • Acts 17:11-12 : 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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