1 John 2:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that every one who does right is born of him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the divine will] is born (begotten) of Him [God].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

Common English Bible

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you also know that every person who practices righteousness is born from him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ If you know that he is just, then know, too, that all who do what is just are born of him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ If you know, that he is just, know ye, that every one also, who doth justice, is born of him.

1 John 2:29 Cross References

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 7:18

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Acts 22:14

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

Acts 3:14

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 7:2

and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

Hebrews 7:26

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

2 Peter 1:4

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

1 John 3:5

You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, as he is righteous.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.

1 John 5:18

We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

1 John 5:4

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.