1 John 3:9

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1 John 3:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

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1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

1 John 5:4

because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

1 John 5:18

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

John 1:13

children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

Job 19:28

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Matthew 7:18

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Acts 4:20

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Romans 6:2

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.