Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 John 3:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
- 1 Peter 1:15
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
- Romans 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
- 1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
- 1 John 2:26
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
- Acts 10:35
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
- Psalms 45:7
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
- 1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteou…
- Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
- Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- Psalms 106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
- Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto r…
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.