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;

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  • 1 John 5:16-19
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    16 If 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.

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

    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.

    19 We 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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    1 See 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.

    2 My 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.

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

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

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

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

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

    8 The 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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    10 In 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.

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

    12 Not 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.

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    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 2:29
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    29 If 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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    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.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Anyone 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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    13 Whose 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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    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 John 1:7-10
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    7 But 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.

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

    9 If 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.

    10 If 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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    1 My 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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    5 Jesus 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.

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

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

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    13 Let 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:

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    15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16 For 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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    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.

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    24 He 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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    11 My 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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    18 The 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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    3 Jesus 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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    14 We 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.

    15 Anyone 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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    15 Then 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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    15 Everyone 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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    4 You 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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    9 Of sin, because they have not faith in me;

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Have 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.

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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

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    5 But 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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    21 But 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.

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

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