1 John 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
  • John 1:13 : 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
  • Matt 7:18 : 18 It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
  • Job 19:28 : 28 If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 5:16-19
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    16If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

    17All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

    18We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

    19We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

  • 1 John 3:1-8
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    1See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

    2My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

    3And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

    4Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

    5And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

    6Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

    7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

    8The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

  • 1 John 3:10-12
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    10In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

    11Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

    12Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • John 1:13
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    13Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

  • 1 John 1:7-10
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    7But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

    9If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

    10If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

  • John 3:5-7
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    5Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

    6That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

    7Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

  • Jas 1:13
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    13Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

  • John 3:15-16
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    15So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

  • 1 John 5:4
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    4Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

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    24He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • John 3:18
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    18The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

  • John 3:3
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    3Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

  • 1 John 3:14-15
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    14We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

    15Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • 1 John 4:15
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    15Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • John 16:9
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    9Of sin, because they have not faith in me;

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • John 3:21
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    21But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

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    9And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

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    12I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.