1 John 2:29
If you know he is good and right, then you also know that everyone who does what is right has been born of God.
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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 13:23Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin? Can a leopard change its spots? In the same way you can't change and do good because you're so used to doing evil.
Matthew 7:16You can recognize them by their fruits. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
John 3:3“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “Unless you are reborn, you can't experience God's kingdom.”
Acts 10:35In every nation God accepts those who respect him, and do what is good and right.
2 Corinthians 5:21God made Jesus, who never personally sinned, experience the consequences of sin so that we could have a character that is good and right just as God is good and right.
Hebrews 1:8but about the Son he says, “Your throne, God, lasts forever and ever, and justice is the ruling scepter of your 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 →