1 John 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 1 John 3:5-6 : 5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 For the sake of the truth, which dwells in us and will be with us forever.
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
  • Jer 2:22-23 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD. 23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

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