New Revised Standard Version
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him.

Contemporary English Version
You know Christ always does right and everyone who does right is a child of God.

New American Bible
If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

he is.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.

1 John 3:5 And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Acts 22:14 But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Hebrews 1:8,9 But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom. . . .

Hebrews 7:2,26 To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace: . . .

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

ye know.

1 John 3:7,10 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. . . .

Jeremiah 13:23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Matthew 7:16-18 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? . . .

Acts 10:35 But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is acceptable to him.

Titus 2:12-14 Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world, . . .

is born.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 4:7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

John 1:13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . .

James 1:18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

1 Peter 1:3,23 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

2 Peter 1:4 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.