1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Text-Critical English 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 7:16By their fruits you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
John 3:3Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to yoʋ, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Acts 10:35but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
2 Corinthians 5:21For God made him who did not know sin to be a sin offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Hebrews 1:8but of the Son he says, “Yoʋr throne, O God, endures forever and ever; the scepter of yoʋr kingdom is a scepter of uprightness.
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 →