7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; …
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)The apostle, having alleged the believer’s obligation to purity from his hope of heaven, and of communion with Christ in glory at the day of his appearance, now proceeds to fill his own mouth and the believer’s mind with multiplied arguments against sin, and all communion with the impure unfruitful works of darkness. And so he reasons and argues, I. From the nature of sin and the intrinsic evil of…
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