1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that works righteousness has been begotten by him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 7:16By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
Acts 10:35but, in every nation, he that fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.
2 Corinthians 5:21for he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Hebrews 1:8But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is from age to age: a scepter of rectitude is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:29
Christ's Second Appearance. ( a. d. 80.) 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. From the blessing of the sacred unction the apostle proceeds in his advice and exhortation to constancy in and with Christ: And now, little children, abide in him, v. 28 . The apostle repeats his kind appellation, little children, which I… Read the whole commentary →