1 John 3:7

Easy To Read Version

Dear children, don’t let any person lead you into the wrong way. Christ is righteous (good). To be good like Christ, a person must do what is right (good).

Cross References

Psalm 106:3

People who obey God’s commands are happy.\par Those people do good things all the time.\par

Psalm 45:7

You love goodness and you hate evil.\par So God, your God, chose you to be king\par over your friends. {\cf2\super [275]} \par

Matthew 5:20

I tell you that you must do better than the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. {\cf2\super [62]} If you are not better people, then you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:75

We will be holy and good before God as long as we live.\par

Acts 10:35

And God accepts any person who worships him and does what is right. It is not important what country a person comes from.

Romans 2:13

Hearing the law does not make people right with God. The law makes people right with God only if those people always obey everything the law says.

Ephesians 5:6

Don’t let any person fool you by telling you things that are not true. Those evil things make God angry with the people who don’t obey.

Ephesians 5:9

Light brings every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

Philippians 1:11

that you will do many good things\par with the help of Christ\par to bring glory and praise to God.\par

Hebrews 1:8

But God said this about his Son:

Hebrews 7:2

And Abraham gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything he had. (The name Melchizedek, king of Salem, has two meanings. First, Melchizedek means “king of goodness.” Also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”)

James 1:22

Do what God’s teaching says; don’t just listen and do nothing. Why? Because when you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves.

James 2:19

You believe there is one God. Good! But the demons {\cf2\super [9]} believe, too! And they shake with fear.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his (Christ’s) wounds you were healed.

1 John 2:1

My dear children, I write this letter to you so that you will not sin. But if any person sins, we have Jesus Christ to help us. He is the righteous (good) One. Jesus defends us before God the Father.

1 John 2:26

I am writing this letter about those people who are trying to lead you into the wrong way.

1 John 2:29

You know that Christ is righteous (good). So you know that all people who do what is right (good) are God’s children.

1 John 3:18

My children, our love should not be only words and talk. No! Our love must be true love. We should show our love by the things we do.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.

1 John 4:17

If God’s love is made perfect in us, then we can be without fear on the day when God judges us. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like him (Christ or God).