1 John 3:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

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  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 for not the hearers of the law `are' righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, 16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;
  • Ps 72:1-7 : 1 By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son. 2 He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment. 3 The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness. 4 He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor. 5 They fear Thee with the sun, and before the moon, Generation -- generations. 6 He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth. 7 Flourish in his days doth the righteous, And abundance of peace till the moon is not.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
  • Ezek 18:5-9 : 5 And a man, when he is righteous, And hath done judgment and righteousness, 6 On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour defiled not, And to a separated woman cometh not near, 7 A man -- he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment, 8 In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man. 9 In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept -- to deal truly, Righteous `is' he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
  • Luke 1:75 : 75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 who shall render to each according to his works; 7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during; 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
  • Rom 6:16-18 : 16 have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up; 18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the 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 fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, `is' to the age of the age; a scepter of righteousness `is' the scepter of thy reign;
  • Heb 7:2 : 2 to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
  • Jas 2:19 : 19 thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

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  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

    29if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

  • 1 John 3:8-12
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    8he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

    9every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

    10In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

  • 1 John 3:1-6
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    1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

    2beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

    3and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

    4Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

    5and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

    6every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

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    7and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

    8if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

    9if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

    10if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

    8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

    9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

  • John 3:20-21
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    20for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

    21but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

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    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

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    19we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

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    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

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    6Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

    7become not, then, partakers with them,

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

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    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

    6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

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    21Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye 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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    20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

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    7The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

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    1Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

  • 1 John 2:12-13
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    12I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

    13I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:

  • 1 John 2:21-22
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    21I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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  • Ezek 33:12
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    12And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.

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    2He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

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    3and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;