1 John 3:7
Good News Translation
Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

Contemporary English Version
Children, don't be fooled. Anyone who does right is good, just like Christ himself.

New American Bible
Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

let.

1 John 2:26,29 These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you. . . .

Romans 2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. . . .

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

he that.

Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Ezekiel 18:5-9 And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice, . . .

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:75 In holiness and justice before him, all our days.

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

Romans 2:6-8,13 Who will render to every man according to his works. . . .

Romans 6:16-18 Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice. . . .

Ephesians 5:9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

even.

1 John 3:3 And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

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.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 72:1-7 A psalm on Solomon. . . .

Hebrews 1:8 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 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 1:15,16 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy: . . .

Context
Children of God
6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath not seen him nor known him. 7Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. 8He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

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 2:26
These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you.

1 John 2:29
If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

1 John 4:17
In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

1 John 3:6
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