1 John 3:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

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  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death(that is, the devil),
  • John 16:11 : 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,
  • Mark 1:24 : 24 “Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are– the Holy One of God!”
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 So he said to them,“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
  • John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
  • Col 2:15 : 15 Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
  • Rom 16:20 : 20 The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
  • Rev 20:2-3 : 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years. 3 The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished.(After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

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  • 1 John 3:9-12
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    9 Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

    10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    11 God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

    12 not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

  • 1 John 3:4-7
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    4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    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.

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

  • John 8:44
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    44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17 All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

    18 We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5 God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    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.

    7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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

    9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

    10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

  • John 8:34
    72%

    34 Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

  • Heb 2:14
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    14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death(that is, the devil),

  • John 3:18-21
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    18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

    19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

    20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

    21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • 1 John 2:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,

    2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8 Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

    9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

  • 1 John 2:12-16
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    69%

    12 Words of Reassurance I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

    13 I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

    14 I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

    15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

    16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

  • Mark 3:23
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    23 So he called them and spoke to them in parables:“How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • Mark 3:26-27
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    26 And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

    27 But no one is able to enter a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

  • 1 John 4:3-4
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    3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

    4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

  • 1 John 2:22
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    22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

  • John 3:16
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    16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 2 Thess 2:9
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    9 The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

  • John 16:9
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    9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

  • Rom 8:3
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    3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

  • Gal 1:4
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    4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

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