1 John 2:29 Cross References - LITV

²⁹ If you know that He is righteous, know that everyone doing righteousness has been born of Him.

²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also may do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and victorious, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.

¹⁶ From their fruits you shall know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.

¹³ who were born not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God. ⁴ Nicodemus said to Him, How is a man able to be born, being old? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born? ⁵ Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth out of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁴ But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a man, a murderer, to be granted to you.

³⁵ but in every nation the one fearing Him and working righteousness is acceptable to Him.

¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed you to know His will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth;

²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

¹² instructing us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly and righteously and godly in the present age, ¹³ looking for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave Himself on our behalf, "that He might redeem us from all iniquity" "and purify" "a people" "for His own possession," zealous of good works. Psa. 130:8; Eze. 37:23; Deut. 14:2

⁸ but as to the Son, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom; ⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; because of this God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness beside Your fellows." Psa. 45:6, 7

² to whom also Abraham "divided a tenth from all" (first being interpreted, king of righteousness; and then also king of Salem, which is, king of peace, Gen. 14:17-20

²⁶ For such a High Priest was fitting for us: holy, harmless, undefiled, and separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens;

¹⁸ Having purposed, He brought us forth by the word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, He according to His great mercy having regenerated us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²³ having been born again, not by corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the living word of God, and remaining forever.

¹⁸ Because even Christ once suffered concerning sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

⁴ by which means He has given to us the very great and precious promises, so that through these you might be partakers of the divine nature, escaping from the corruption in the world by lust.

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

⁵ And you know that He was revealed that He might take away our sins, and sin is not in Him.

⁷ Little children, let no one lead you astray; the one practicing righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.

⁹ Everyone who has been begotten of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God and the children of the Devil are revealed: Everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God; also the one not loving his brother.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves the one who has been born of Him.

⁴ Because everything having been born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory overcoming the world, our faith.

¹⁸ We know that everyone having been born of God does not sin, but the one born of God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. The one doing good is of God; but the one doing bad has not seen God.