1 John 2:29
If you know, that he is just, know ye, that every one also, who doth justice, is born of him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
Jeremiah 13:23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.
Matthew 7:16By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
John 3:3Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Acts 10:35But in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh justice, is acceptable to him.
2 Corinthians 5:21Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him.
Hebrews 1:8But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre 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 →