1 John 2:29

Children Of God

²⁸ And now, dear children, I repeat, you must continue to live in union with Him, so that if He is unveiled, we may have unshaken confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame when He comes. ²⁹ If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.

In Like Manner

Works Righteousness

Does What Is Right

Christ

1 John 3:7

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

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child.

1 John 4:7

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

John 1:13

who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

Matthew 7:16-18

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

John 3:3-5

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

Acts 3:14

Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

Acts 22:14

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak,

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

Titus 2:12-14

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Hebrews 1:8-9

But regarding the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, will stand forever and ever; a righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.

Hebrews 7:2

to whom Abraham contributed a tenth of all his spoils, who first of all, in accordance with the meaning of his name, is king of righteousness, and then king of Salem, which means king of peace;

Hebrews 7:26

For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,

James 1:18

In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In accordance with His great mercy He has begotten us anew to an ever living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

1 Peter 1:23

because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

2 Peter 1:4

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

1 John 2:1

My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.

1 John 3:5

You know that He appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in Him.

1 John 3:9-10

No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God.

1 John 5:4

for every child of God continues to conquer the world. Our faith is the victory that has conquered the world.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, but the Son who was born of God continues to keep him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

3 John 1:11

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.