1 John 3:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does 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 is born of him.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; 16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."
  • 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 2:26 : 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.
  • Ps 72:1-7 : 1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son. 2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, through righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush the oppressor. 5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth. 7 In his days the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace 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 You love righteousness and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are they who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times.
  • Ezek 18:5-9 : 5 But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right, 6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman, 7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 8 He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man, 9 Has walked in My statutes, and has kept My judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
  • Luke 1:75 : 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 Who will render to each person according to his deeds: 7 To those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Rom 6:16-18 : 16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were servants of sin, you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
  • 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, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Heb 1:8 : 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.
  • 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;
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. The demons also believe, and tremble.

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  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28And now, little children, abide in him, 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 is born of him.

  • 1 John 3:8-12
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    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.

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

    12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

  • 1 John 3:1-6
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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.

  • 1 John 2:1
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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:

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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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.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

    8Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

    9Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

  • John 3:20-21
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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.

  • 3 John 1:11
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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.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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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.

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

    19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 1 John 2:5-6
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    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.

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and right.

  • 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 have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

  • 1 John 5:1
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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.

  • 1 John 2:12-13
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    12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

    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.

  • 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 know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

    22Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

  • Ezek 33:12
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    12Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

  • Ps 15:2
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    2He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

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