Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Little children, let no one deceive you! The one who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.

International Standard Version

Little children, don't let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.

A Conservative Version

Little children, let no man lead you astray. He who is doing righteousness is righteous, just as that man is righteous.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Little children (believers, dear ones), do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness [the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life—in private as well as in public—and to conform to God’s precepts] is righteous, just as He is righteous.

An Understandable Version

Little children [i.e., dear ones], do not allow anyone to lead you astray [from the truth]; the person who continues to do what is right is [considered by God as] righteous, even as Christ is righteous.

Anderson New Testament

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that works righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Bible in Basic English

My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

dear children, let no man deceive you: only he that acts justly is just, as he is just.

Darby Translation

Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

Little children, let no one deceive you: he who works righteousness, is righteous, even as He is righteous.

Godbey New Testament

Little children, let no one deceive you. The one doing righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

Goodspeed New Testament

Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

John Wesley New Testament

Beloved children, let no one deceive you. He that practiseth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Julia Smith Translation

Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

Modern King James verseion

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Little children, let no man beguile you; He that worketh righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Moffatt New Testament

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

Montgomery New Testament

My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

NET Bible

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

New Heart English Bible

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Noyes New Testament

My children, let no one deceive you; he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Sawyer New Testament

Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous;

The Emphasized Bible

Dear children! Let, no one, lead you astray! He that is doing righteousness, is, righteous, just as, He, is righteous:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

My dear children, let no man deceive you: he who doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:

Twentieth Century New Testament

My Children, do not let any one mislead you. He who lives righteously is righteous--as Christ is righteous.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.

Williams New Testament

Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.

World English Bible

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Worrell New Testament

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

Worsley New Testament

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that practiseth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous:

Youngs Literal Translation

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
τεκνίον 
Teknion 
Usage: 8

let
πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive, err, go astray, seduce, wander, be out of the way
Usage: 25

no man
μηδείς μηδεμία μηδέν 
medeis 
no man, nothing, no, none, not, anything,
Usage: 79

πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive, err, go astray, seduce, wander, be out of the way
Usage: 25

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

he that doeth
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585
Usage: 585

δίκαιος 
Dikaios 
Usage: 57

even as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

he
ἐκεῖνος 
Ekeinos 
that, those, he, the same, they,
Usage: 148

References

Context Readings

Children Of God

6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.



Cross References

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

Romans 2:13

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

1 John 2:1

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

1 John 2:26

These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.

1 Peter 1:15-16

but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;

Psalm 45:7

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

Psalm 72:1-7

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Psalm 106:3

How blessed are those who keep justice,
Who practice righteousness at all times!

Ezekiel 18:5-9

“But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,

Matthew 5:20

“For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:75

In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.

Romans 2:6-8

who will render to each person according to his deeds:

Romans 6:16-18

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Galatians 6:7-8

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Philippians 1:11

having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Hebrews 1:8

But of the Son He says,
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.

Hebrews 7:2

to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.

James 1:22

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

James 2:19

You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

1 Peter 2:24

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

James 5:1-3

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

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