Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.
New American Standard Bible
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.
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,
Themes
Be not deceived » Miscellaneous topics containing warnings
Righteousness » They who walk in and follow » Are righteous
Topics
Interlinear
Poieo
Esti
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
References
Morish
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children Of God
6 No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him. 7 Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright. 8 Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.
Cross References
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.
Romans 2:13
For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.
1 John 2:1
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.
1 John 2:26
I write you this with reference to those who are trying to mislead you.
1 Peter 1:15-16
but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
Luke 1:75
And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.
Acts 10:35
but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.
Romans 2:6-8
For he will pay every man for what he has done.
Romans 6:16-18
Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice
Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.
Ephesians 5:6
Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.
Ephesians 5:9
for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;
Philippians 1:11
with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!
Hebrews 7:2
to whom Abraham apportioned one tenth of all the spoil, who is first, as his name shows, king of righteousness and then king of Salem, which means king of peace??3 with no father or mother or ancestry, and with no beginning to his days nor end to his life, but like no one but the Son of God, continues as priest forever.
James 1:22
Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.
James 2:19
Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder.
1 Peter 2:24
He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.
James 5:1-3
Come now, you rich people! weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are going to overtake you!