What Does 1 John 2:29 Mean in the King James?

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1 John 2:29 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The alignment you practice is the family resemblance that reveals the source of your life.

THE MEANING

You recognize his alignment, and you recognize the same quality taking shape in everyone who practices alignment. Their actions reveal a life born from him: its source becomes visible in the pattern that emerges now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that what you practice is unrelated to the source you come from.

THE ROOT

δικαιοσύνη

dikaiosynē

GROWS FROM

δικ-

dik-

Rightness, justice, what is aligned.

Alongside the familiar sense of righteousness, ⁨δικαιοσύνη⁩ carries alignment: life brought into right relation. Joined to “doeth” and “born,” it presents alignment as a living family resemblance that reveals its source.

ALSO GROWS

dikaios: just, right, aligned

δίκαιος

It describes a person characterized by the quality named in ⁨δικαιοσύνη⁩.

dikaioō: set right, justify

δικαιόω

This related verb shows the same word family describing movement into right relation.

γεγέννηται

gegennētai

GROWS FROM

γεν-

gen-

Beget, give birth, bring forth.

“Born of him” names a source of life and belonging. The ⁨γεν-⁩ word family links begetting with what comes forth, so the alignment being practiced appears as the fruit of an origin.

ALSO GROWS

gennaō: beget, give birth

γεννάω

This is the verb family behind “born,” naming the life’s source.

gennēma: offspring, what is brought forth

γέννημα

It makes the link between origin and what emerges visible in the same word family.

γινώσκετε

ginōskete

GROWS FROM

γνω-

gnō-

Know, recognize through encounter.

The second “know” is ⁨γινώσκετε⁩, from the encounter-knowing family. Recognition here reaches beyond information about a quality: practiced alignment lets its source be discerned.

ALSO GROWS

gnōsis: knowledge, recognition

γνῶσις

This noun belongs to the same knowing family and names the recognition the verse describes.

gnōrizō: make known, bring to recognition

γνωρίζω

This related verb shows the family extending from knowing to making something known.

THE PATTERN

The source of a life becomes recognizable in the alignment it brings forth.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

1 John 3:7 · KJVThe practiced alignment and the person called aligned share the same word family, making the life’s source visible in its pattern.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Matthew 5:6 · KJVThe hunger for alignment is met with filling, showing alignment as a living desire that reaches its answer.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Isaiah 32:17 · KJVThe work of alignment bears wholeness and quietness, showing what this life brings forth.

THE THREAD

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

1 John 3:7 · KJV

This verse repeats “doeth righteousness” and then names the person who does it as “righteous,” forms from the same Greek word family. That echo opens “born of him” as a source recognizable in the alignment that takes shape.

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