3 John 1:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Ps 37:27 : 27 Depart from evil and do good, and live forevermore.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
  • Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Be therefore followers of God, as beloved children;
  • 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
  • 1 Pet 3:11 : 11 Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
  • 1 Pet 3:13 : 13 And who is he who will harm you if you are followers of what is good?
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Phil 3:17 : 17 Brothers, join in following my example, and mark those who walk as you have us for a pattern.
  • 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit:
  • 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Jews:
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 12:26 : 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor him.
  • 1 Cor 4:16 : 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to pervert justice by following the majority.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.
  • 1 John 3:6-9 : 6 Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He 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. 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.

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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.

    10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him.

    11For he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

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    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.

    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.

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    19This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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    10Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with that, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.

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    29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

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