Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
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.
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;
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 Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him. 7 My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Cross References
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practices righteousness has been born of him.
Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.
1 John 2:1
My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
1 John 2:26
I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
1 Peter 1:15-16
but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,
Matthew 5:20
"For I assure you that unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not find entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 1:75
"In holiness and righteousness before him All our days.
Acts 10:35
"but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
Romans 2:6-8
For He will render to every man according to his works;
Romans 6:16-18
Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;
Ephesians 5:9
Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.
Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 1:8
But to the Son he says. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the scepter of thy kingdom is the scepter of justice.
Hebrews 7:2
and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;
James 1:22
And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder.
1 Peter 2:24
He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 John 3:3
And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.
James 5:1-3
Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!