1 John 2:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν εἰδῆτε ὅτι δίκαιός ἐστιν, γινώσκετε ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν δικαιοσύνην ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγέννηται.

Transliteration

If you eidēte that dikaios estin, you ginōskete that everyone poiōn the dikaiosynēn ex him has been gegennētai.

Grammar Details

• *eidēte*: perfect, subjunctive, active, 2nd person plural - you might know
• *dikaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - righteous/just
• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is/exists
• *ginōskete*: present, indicative or imperative, active, 2nd person plural - you know/know!
• *poiōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - practicing/doing
• *dikaiosynēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - righteousness/justice
• *ex*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *gegennētai*: perfect, indicative, passive, 3rd person singular - has been born/begotten

Word Meanings

• *eidēte*: might know/perceive/understand
• *dikaios*: righteous/just/upright/innocent
• *ginōskete*: know/understand/recognize/perceive
• *poiōn*: practicing/doing/performing/carrying out
• *dikaiosynēn*: righteousness/justice/uprightness/right conduct
• *gegennētai*: has been born/begotten/brought forth from

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.
• 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of 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 him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't 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, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
• Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Acts 22:14 : 14 He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Titus 2:12-14 : 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory 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 people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Heb 1:8-9 : 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. 9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
• 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;
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father 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 of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
• 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{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
• 1 John 3:5 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• 1 John 5:4 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• 1 John 5:18 : 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.
• 3 John 1:11 : 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.
• 1 John 3:9-9 : 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.
• Jer 13:23 : 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Matt 7:16-18 : 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.