1 John 3:7

Believers must not be deceived: the one who does righteousness is righteous, like Christ. Conduct, not mere claims, reveals true righteousness.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
• 1 Jn 2:26These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Eph 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
• Rom 6:16–18Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Luke 1:75In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
• Ps 72:1–7By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Ezek 18:5–9“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Jas 2:19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
• Rom 2:6–8who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
• Heb 7:2to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”;
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• Jas 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
• Jas 5:1–3Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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