1 John 3:7

²⁹If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

¹⁵but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior, ¹⁶because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

³Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

⁷You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

²⁶These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

¹My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor^[+] with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

⁷Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

³⁵but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

⁹for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,