Bible Verses About Righteousness

Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God.

Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love.

Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life.

Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.

Beloved friends, if this is how God loved us, we likewise ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains united with us, and our love for him has been brought to its goal in us.

Here is how we know that we remain united with him and he with us: he has given to us from his own Spirit.

Moreover, we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as Deliverer of the world.

If someone acknowledges that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains united with him, and he with God.

Also we have come to know and trust the love that God has for us. God is love; and those who remain in this love remain united with God, and God remains united with them.

Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.

There is no fear in love. On the contrary, love that has achieved its goal gets rid of fear, because fear has to do with punishment; the person who keeps fearing has not been brought to maturity in regard to love.

We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if a person does not love his brother, whom he has seen, then he cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Yes, this is the command we have from him: whoever loves God must love his brother too.

Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.

Here is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God, we also do what he commands.

For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,

because everything which has God as its Father overcomes the world. And this is what victoriously overcomes the world: our trust.

Who does overcome the world if not the person who believes that Yeshua is the Son of God?

Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son.

I have written you these things so that you may know that you have eternal life — you who keep trusting in the person and power of the Son of God.

We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.

Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.

Dear friend, don’t imitate the bad, but the good. Those who do what is good are from God; those who do what is bad are not from God.