1 John 3:7

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Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

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  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
  • Ps 72:1-7 : 1 For Solomon. O God, grant the king the ability to make just decisions! Grant the king’s son the ability to make fair decisions! 2 Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably. 3 The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice. 4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor. 5 People will fear you as long as the sun and moon remain in the sky, for generation after generation. 6 He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth. 7 During his days the godly will flourish; peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 How blessed are those who promote justice, and do what is right all the time!
  • Ezek 18:5-9 : 5 “Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right, 6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period, 7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked, 8 does not engage in usury or charge interest, but refrains from wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men, 9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. That man is righteous; he will certainly live, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
  • Luke 1:75 : 75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 He will reward each one according to his works: 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Rom 6:16-18 : 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the light consists 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 of the Son he says,“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.
  • Heb 7:2 : 2 To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear.

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  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

    29If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 1 John 3:8-12
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    8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

    9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

  • 1 John 3:1-6
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

    3And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

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

    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

    9But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we say 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, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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

    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

    18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

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

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

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    6Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.

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

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered 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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    20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

  • 1 John 2:12-13
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    12Words of Reassurance I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

    13I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

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

    22Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

  • Ezek 33:12
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    12“And you, son of man, say to your people,‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins.’

  • Ps 15:2
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    2Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.