1 John 2:29

Children Of God

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back. ²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

In Like Manner

Works Righteousness

Does What Is Right

Christ

1 John 3:7

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

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

John 1:13

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

Jeremiah 13:23

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: he is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey -- on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.

Matthew 7:16-18

You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

John 3:3-5

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Acts 3:14

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

Acts 22:14

Then he said, 'The God of our ancestors has already chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a command from his mouth,

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

Titus 2:12-14

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Hebrews 1:8-9

but of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

Hebrews 7:2

To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

Hebrews 7:26

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

James 1:18

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

1 John 2:1

(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 One,

1 John 3:5

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:9-10

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

1 John 5:4

because This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.