Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

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Dear children,(A) do not let anyone lead you astray.(B) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.(C)

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15 (A)but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, (B)“Be holy, for I am holy.”

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15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;(A) 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2

29 (A)If you know that He is righteous, you know that (B)everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

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29 If you know that he is righteous,(A) you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.(B)

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13 (for (A)not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

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13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey(A) the law who will be declared righteous.

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(A)And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

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All who have this hope in him purify themselves,(A) just as he is pure.(B)

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26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to [a]deceive you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:26 lead you astray

26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.(A)

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The Test of Knowing Christ

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

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My dear children,(A) I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate(B) with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

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You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has (A)anointed You
With the oil of (B)gladness more than Your companions.

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You love righteousness(A) and hate wickedness;(B)
    therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
    by anointing(C) you with the oil of joy.(D)

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Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for (A)whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap (B)everlasting life.

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Do not be deceived:(A) God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.(B) Whoever sows to please their flesh,(C) from the flesh will reap destruction;(D) whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.(E)

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35 But (A)in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is (B)accepted by Him.

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35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.(A)

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(for (A)the fruit of the [a]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:9 NU light

(for the fruit(A) of the light consists in all goodness,(B) righteousness and truth)

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16 Do you not know that (A)to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart (B)that form of doctrine to which you were [a]delivered. 18 And (C)having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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  1. Romans 6:17 entrusted

16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey(A)—whether you are slaves to sin,(B) which leads to death,(C) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God(D) that, though you used to be slaves to sin,(E) you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching(F) that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin(G) and have become slaves to righteousness.(H)

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Blessed are those who keep justice,
And [a]he who (A)does righteousness at (B)all times!

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  1. Psalm 106:3 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. those who do

Blessed are those who act justly,(A)
    who always do what is right.(B)

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