1 John 1:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

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  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
  • 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 kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
  • 1 John 3:5-6 : 5 And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
  • Jer 2:22-23 : 22 You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD. 23 “How can you say,‘I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.’ Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.
  • Job 9:2 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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