1 John 5:18
We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17All unrighteousness is sin. And there is sin not toward death.
19We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil.
Cross References
Psalms 17:4As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man.
Psalms 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
John 3:2This man came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou have come a teacher from God, for no man can do these signs that thou do if God is not with him.
John 15:4Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me.
John 15:9As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Dwell ye in my love.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 5:15-18
The Sin unto Death. ( a. d. 80.) 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin… Read the whole commentary →