Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.
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.
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.
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
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children Of God
6 Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him. 7 Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just. 8 He doing sin is of the accuser; for the accuser sins from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that he might loose the works of the accuser.
Cross References
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him.
Romans 2:13
(For not hearers of the law just with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
1 John 2:26
These I wrote to you concerning them deceiving you.
1 Peter 1:15-16
But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back;
Psalm 45:7
Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.
Psalm 72:1-7
To Solomon. O God, thou wilt give thy judgments to the king, and thy justice to the king's son.
Psalm 106:3
Happy they watching judgment, doing justice in all time.
Ezekiel 18:5-9
And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice,
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
Luke 1:75
To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life.
Acts 10:35
But in every nation he fearing him, and working justice, is acceptable to him.
Romans 2:6-8
Who will give back to each according to his works:
Romans 6:16-18
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice?
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.
Ephesians 5:6
Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)
Philippians 1:11
Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 1:8
And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.
Hebrews 7:2
To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
James 1:22
And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: and the evil spirits believe, and shudder.
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
1 John 3:3
And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure.
James 5:1-3
Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.