1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 13:12And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see,
2 Kings 20:15And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.
Job 9:2Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Job 15:14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Psalms 143:2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 1:6-8
The Apostolic Testimony. ( a. d. 80.) 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. The apostle, having declared the truth and dignity of the author of the gospel, brings a message… Read the whole commentary →