KJV King James Version
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
WEB World English Bible
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
ASV American Standard Version
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.
Surrounding context — 1 John 2
26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐὰνG1437 · eanifεἰδῆτεG6063 · oidato knowὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatδίκαιόςG1342 · dikaiosjustἐστιν,G1510 · eimito beγινώσκετεG1097 · ginōskōto knowὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatπᾶςG3956 · pasallὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoποιῶνG4160 · poieōto do/make: doτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoδικαιοσύνηνG1343 · dikaiosunērighteousnessἐξG1537 · ekout fromαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heγεγέννηται.G1080 · gennaōto beget
Cross-references
John 3:3-5Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.1 John 5:1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.John 1:13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.1 John 3:9-10Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.1 John 5:4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.Acts 10:35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.1 Peter 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:Hebrews 1:8-9But unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.1 Peter 1:3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,2 Corinthians 5:21For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.Titus 2:12-14Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;1 Peter 1:23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.Acts 22:14And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he [is] just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.2 Peter 1:4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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