1 John 2:29

God's Word

If you know that Christ has God’s approval, you also know that everyone who does what God approves of has been born from God.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you’re taught to do wrong?

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice with all your heart, people of Zion! Shout in triumph, people of Jerusalem! Look! Your King is coming to you: He is righteous and victorious. He is humble and rides on a donkey, on a colt, a young pack animal.

John 1:13

These people didn’t become God’s children in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire ⌞to have a child⌟. They were born from God.

John 7:18

Those who speak their own thoughts are looking for their own glory. But the man who wants to bring glory to the one who sent him is a true teacher and doesn’t have dishonest motives.

Acts 10:35

Rather, whoever respects God and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

Acts 22:14

“Ananias said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the one who has God’s approval, and to hear him speak to you.

Acts 3:14

You rejected the man who was holy and innocent. You asked to have a murderer given to you,

2 Corinthians 5:21

God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God’s approval through him.

Hebrews 7:2

Abraham gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had captured. In the first place, Melchizedek’s name means king of God’s approval. He is also called king of Salem (which means king of peace).

Hebrews 7:26

We need a chief priest who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and who holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again, not from a seed that can be destroyed, but through God’s everlasting word that can’t be destroyed. That’s why ⌞Scripture says⌟,

1 Peter 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life.

1 Peter 3:18

This is true because Christ suffered for our sins once. He was an innocent person, but he suffered for guilty people so that he could bring you to God. His body was put to death, but he was brought to life through his spirit.

2 Peter 1:4

Through his glory and integrity he has given us his promises that are of the highest value. Through these promises you will share in the divine nature because you have escaped the corruption that sinful desires cause in the world.

1 John 2:1

My dear children, I’m writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet, if anyone does sin, we have Jesus Christ, who has God’s full approval. He speaks on our behalf when we come into the presence of the Father.

1 John 3:5

You know that Christ appeared in order to take away our sins. He isn’t sinful.

1 John 3:7

Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you. Whoever does what God approves of has God’s approval as Christ has God’s approval.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.

1 John 5:18

We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who has been born from God has won the victory over the world. Our faith is what wins the victory over the world.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, never imitate evil, but imitate good. The person who does good is from God. The person who does evil has never seen God.