1 John 2:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

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  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
  • John 1:13 : 13 Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 3:3-5 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.
  • Acts 22:14 : 14 And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will and see that Righteous One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Titus 2:12-14 : 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
  • Heb 1:8-9 : 8 But to the Son He says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your companions.
  • Heb 7:2 : 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit;
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin, but he who is born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.
  • 1 John 3:9-9 : 9 Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you may also do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and endowed with salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
  • Matt 7:16-18 : 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

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  • 1 John 3:1-10
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    1Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

    2Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that when he appears, 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.

    4Whoever commits sin also transgresses the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

    5And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.

    6Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.

    7Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

    8He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

  • 1 John 5:1-2
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.

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    17All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

    18We know that whoever is born of God does not sin, but he who is born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

    19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    6We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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    3And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    5But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

    6He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked.

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    1My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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    20Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

    21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.

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    5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice 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 Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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    11Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

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    14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

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    11Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and right.

  • 1 John 2:13
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    13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

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    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

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    13Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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    20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

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    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

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    13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

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    41You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

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  • 1 John 4:15
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    13By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

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    24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.