1 John 5:18
We recognize that those who are born of God don't keep on sinning. The Son of God protects them and the devil cannot harm them.
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17Yes, all that is not right is sin, but there's sin that is not deadly.)
19We know that we belong to God, and that the world is under the power of the evil one.
Cross References
Psalms 17:4With regard to the actions of others: I have done what you told me and I have avoided what violent people do.
Psalms 39:1I told myself, “I will be careful in what I do, and not sin in what I say. I will keep my mouth shut when the wicked are around.”
Proverbs 4:23Most of all, protect your mind, for everything in life flows from it.
John 3:2He came at night to where Jesus was and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God, for nobody could do the miraculous signs you're doing unless God was with him.”
John 15:4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it remains part of the vine, so it is for you: you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.
John 15:9As the Father loved me, so I have loved you. Remain 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 →