1 John 3:7

World English Bible (2000)

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even 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 isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
  • Ps 72:1-7 : 1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. 2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. 5 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. 6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. 7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
  • Ezek 18:5-9 : 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, 6 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, 7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, 9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into 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 acceptable to him.
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Rom 6:16-18 : 16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on 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 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. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
  • Heb 7:2 : 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, 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 only hearers, deluding your own selves.
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

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    28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

    29 If 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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    8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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

    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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    1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

    2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

    3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

    5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

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    1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

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

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    7 But 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.

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

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

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

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  • John 3:20-21
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    20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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    11 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

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

    18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

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

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    11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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    21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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    4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

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    18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

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    7 A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

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    12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

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    21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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    12 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

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    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.