1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Berean Standard Bible
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 13:12But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
2 Kings 20:15“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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 →