Can Ethiopians change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
1 John 2:29 - New Revised Standard Version If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him. Common English Bible If you know that he is righteous, you also know that every person who practices righteousness is born from him. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 If you know, that he is just, know ye, that every one also, who doth justice, is born of him. |
Can Ethiopians change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear his own voice;
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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.”
For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature.
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;
You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.
We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.
for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.