1 John 3:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 5:18 : 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.
  • John 1:13 : 13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 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 4:7 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
  • Matt 7:18 : 18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • 1 John 5:4 : 4 because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.
  • Job 19:28 : 28 If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before time began.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 5:16-19
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    16If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.

    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

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

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

  • 1 John 3:1-8
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

    3And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

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

    8The 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.

  • 1 John 3:10-12
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    10By 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.

    11God 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,

    12not 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 5:1
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    1Everyone 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 2:29
    76%

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

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Everyone 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.

  • John 1:13
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    13– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

  • 1 John 4:7
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    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

  • 1 John 1:7-10
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    7But 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.

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

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

    10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar 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 not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,

  • John 3:5-7
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    5Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

    6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘You must all be born from above.’

  • Jas 1:13
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    13Let no one say when he is tempted,“I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    16For 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.

  • 1 John 5:4
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    4because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

  • 1 John 3:24
    70%

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear 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.

  • John 3:18
    70%

    18The 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.

  • John 3:3
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    3Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

  • 1 John 3:14-15
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    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

    15Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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

  • 1 John 4:15
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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

  • 1 John 4:4
    68%

    4You 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.

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

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • John 3:21
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    21But 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 3:21
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    21Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

  • 1 John 2:12
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    12Words of Reassurance I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.