1 John 3:7

Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

In Context

6No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.

8He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil.

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Cross References

Luke 1:75In piety and uprightness before Him all our days.

Romans 2:6To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;

Romans 6:16Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?

Galatians 6:7Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:5-11

The Mark of God's Children. ( a. d. 80.) 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this… Read the whole commentary →

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