Verse 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.

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.