1 John 2:29
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
English Majority Text (NT)
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 7:16You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grape clusters from thorns, or figs from thistles?
John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Acts 10:35But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Hebrews 1:8But of the Son He says: 1 “ Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; 1 the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. 1
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 →