29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
29 Once you're convinced that he is right and righteous, you'll recognize that all who practice righteousness are God's true children.
29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God's children.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 2:29
Commentary on 1 John 2:24-29
(Read 1 John 2:24-29)
The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, and unites us to the Son of God, John 15:3,4. What value should we put upon gospel truth! Thereby the promise of eternal life is made sure. The promise God makes, is suitable to his own greatness, power, and goodness; it is eternal life. The Spirit of truth will not lie; and he teaches all things in the present dispensation, all things necessary to our knowledge of God in Christ, and their glory in the gospel. The apostle repeats the kind words, "little children;" which denotes his affection. He would persuade by love. Gospel privileges oblige to gospel duties; and those anointed by the Lord Jesus abide with him. The new spiritual nature is from the Lord Christ. He that is constant to the practice of religion in trying times, shows that he is born from above, from the Lord Christ. Then, let us beware of holding the truth in unrighteousness, remembering that those only are born of God, who bear his holy image, and walk in his most righteous ways.