Verse 8

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

Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh 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 pure. I am clean and without sin?"
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that 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 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
  • 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 thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 1 John 3:5-6 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. 6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
  • 3 John 1:3 : 3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in 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 only hearers, deluding your own selves.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
  • Jer 2:22-23 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh. 23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?