1 John 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Boys (lads), let no one deceive and lead you astray. He who practices righteousness [who is upright, conforming to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action, living a consistently conscientious life] is righteous, even as He is righteous.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:

Common English Bible

⁷ Little children, make sure no one deceives you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, in the same way that Jesus is righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Little sons, let no one deceive you. Whoever does justice is just, even as he also is just.

1 John 3:7 Cross References

1 John 2:29

If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

1 John 2:26

I write these things to you concerning those who would deceive you.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

Psalm 45:7

you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

Acts 10:35

but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

Psalm 106:3

Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.

Philippians 1:11

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

Hebrews 7:2

and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next, he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”

Hebrews 1:8

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

1 John 4:17

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.