Teks -- 1 John 3:7 (NET)

3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 1Jo 3:7 - Let no man lead you astray

Let no man lead you astray ( mēdeis planātō humas ).

Present active imperative of planaō , "let no one keep on leading you astray."See 1Jo 1:8; 1Jo 2:26. Break the spell of any Gnostic charmer.

Robertson: 1Jo 3:7 - He that doeth righteousness

He that doeth righteousness ( ho poiōn tēn dikaiosunēn ).

"He that keeps on doing (present active participle of poieō ) righteousness."For this idiom with poieō see 1Jo 1:6; 1Jo 3:4.

Robertson: 1Jo 3:7 - He

He ( ekeinos ).

Christ as in 1Jo 3:5.

Vincent: 1Jo 3:7 - Little children

Little children

See on 1Jo 2:1.

Vincent: 1Jo 3:7 - Deceive

Deceive ( πλανάτω )

Rev., better, lead astray . See on 1Jo 1:8.

Vincent: 1Jo 3:7 - Doeth righteousness

Doeth righteousness

See on 1Jo 3:4, and compare 1Jo 2:29. Note the article τὴν , the righteousness, in its completeness and unity. Not merely doing righteous acts. " In his relation to other men he will do what is just; and in his relation to the gods he will do what is holy; and he who does what is just and holy cannot be other than just and holy" (Plato, " Gorgias," 507).

Wesley: 1Jo 3:7 - Let no one deceive you

Let none persuade you that any man is righteous but he that uniformly practises righteousness; he alone is righteous, after the example of his Lord.

JFB: 1Jo 3:7-8

The same truth stated, with the addition that he who sins is, so far as he sins, "of the devil."

JFB: 1Jo 3:7-8 - let no man deceive you

As Antinomians try to mislead men.

JFB: 1Jo 3:7-8 - righteousness

Greek, "the righteousness," namely, of Christ or God.

JFB: 1Jo 3:7-8 - he that doeth . . . is righteous

Not his doing makes him righteous, but his being righteous (justified by the righteousness of God in Christ, Rom 10:3-10) makes him to do righteousness: an inversion common in familiar language, logical in reality, though not in form, as in Luk 7:47; Joh 8:47. Works do not justify, but the justified man works. We infer from his doing righteousness that he is already righteous (that is, has the true and only principle of doing righteousness, namely, faith), and is therefore born of God (1Jo 3:9); just as we might say, The tree that bears good fruit is a good tree, and has a living root; not that the fruit makes the tree and its root to be good, but it shows that they are so.

JFB: 1Jo 3:7-8 - he

Christ.

Clarke: 1Jo 3:7 - Let no man deceive you

Let no man deceive you - Either by asserting that "you cannot be saved from sin in this life,"or "that sin will do you no harm and cannot alter your state, if you are adopted into the family of God; for sin cannot annul this adoption."Hear God, ye deceivers! He that doeth righteousness is righteous, according to his state, nature, and the extent of his moral powers

Clarke: 1Jo 3:7 - Even as he is righteous

Even as he is righteous - Allowing for the disparity that must necessarily exist between that which is bounded, and that which is without limits. As God, in the infinitude of his nature, is righteous; so they, being filled with him, are in their limited nature righteous.

Calvin: 1Jo 3:7 - He that doeth righteousness

7.He that doeth righteousness The Apostle shews here that newness of life is testified by good works; nor does that likeness of which he has spoken, that is between Christ and his members, appear, except by the fruits they bring forth; as though he had said, “Since it behooves us to be conformed to Christ, the truth and evidence of this must appear in our life.” The exhortation is the same with that of Paul in Galatians

“If ye live in the Spirit, walk also in the Spirit.”
(Gal 5:25)

For many would gladly persuade themselves that they have this righteousness buried in their hearts, while iniquity evidently occupies their feet, and hands, and tongue, and eyes.

TSK: 1Jo 3:7 - let // he that // even

let : 1Jo 2:26, 1Jo 2:29; Rom 2:13; 1Co 6:9; Gal 6:7, Gal 6:8; Eph 5:6; Jam 1:22, Jam 2:19, Jam 5:1-3

he that : Psa 106:3; Eze 18:5-9; Mat 5:20; Luk 1:75; Act 10:35; Rom 2:6-8, Rom 2:13; Rom 6:16-18; Eph 5:9; Phi 1:11; 1Pe 2:24

even : 1Jo 3:3, 1Jo 2:1; Psa 45:7, Psa 72:1-7; Heb 1:8, Heb 7:2; 1Pe 1:15, 1Pe 1:16

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Jo 3:7

This caution implies the zealous endeavour of the seducers of that time, to instil their poisonous doctrine and principles of licentiousness; and his own solicitude, lest these Christians should receive them, and be mischiefed by them. Whereas therefore they were wont to suggest, that a merely notional knowledge was enough to recommend men, and make them acceptable to God, though they lived never so impure lives; he inculcates, that only they that did righteousness, viz. in a continued course, living comformably to the rules of the gospel, were righteous; and that they must aim to be so,

even as he is righteous not only making the righteousness and holy life of Christ the object of their trust, but the pattern of their walking and practice.

Gill: 1Jo 3:7 - Little children, let no man deceive you // he that doeth righteousness, is righteous // even as he is righteous

Little children, let no man deceive you,.... Neither by these doctrines, nor by wicked practices, drawing into the belief of the one, or into the performance of the other; suggesting, as the Gnostics did, that knowledge without practice was enough, and that it was no matter how a man lived, provided his notions of the Gospel were right:

he that doeth righteousness, is righteous; not that any man is made righteous by the works of the law, or by his obedience to the law of works, for this is contrary to the express word of God; and besides, the best righteousness of man is imperfect, and can never constitute or denominate him righteous before God; and was he justified by it; it would not only lay a foundation for boasting in him, which ought not to be, but would make the death, the sacrifice, and righteousness of Christ, to be in vain; men are only made righteous by the righteousness of Christ, which be has wrought out which is revealed in the Gospel, and received by faith, and which God imputes without works; so that he that doeth righteousness is he that being convinced of the insufficiency of his own righteousness, and of the excellency and suitableness of Christ's righteousness, renounces his own, and submits to his; who lays hold upon it, receives it, and exercises faith on it, as his justifying righteousness; and, in consequence of this, lives in a course of holiness and righteousness, in opposition to, and distinction from one that commits sin, or lives a sinful course of life; which, though it does not make him righteous in the sight of God, yet it shows him to be righteous in the sight of men, and proves that faith to be right which lays hold on the righteousness of Christ, by which he is truly righteous:

even as he is righteous; as Christ himself is righteous; and so the Syriac version reads; not as personal, or as he is personally and essentially righteous as God; but as mystical, every member of his body being clothed with the same robe of righteousness the whole body of Christ is, and indeed justified by the same righteousness that he as Mediator was, when he rose from the dead, as the representative of his people: moreover, as Christ showed himself to be righteous as man, by doing good, so believers in him, by imitating him, and walking as he walked, show themselves to be good and righteous, like, though not equal to him; for as a tree is known by its fruits, so is a good man by his good works, and a righteous man by doing righteousness; and as good fruit does not make a good tree, but shows it to be good, so good works do not make a good man, nor a man's own righteousness make him a righteous man, but show him to be so.