1 John 1:8
if we may say, “We have no sin,” we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us;
Literal Standard Version
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 leprosy breaks out greatly in the skin, and the leprosy has covered all the skin of [him who has] the plague, from his head even to his feet, to all that appears to the eyes of the priest,
2 Kings 20:15And he says, “What did they see in your house?” And Hezekiah says, “They saw all that [is] in my house; there has not been a thing that I have not showed them among my treasures.”
Job 9:2“Truly I have known that [it is] so, || But how is man righteous with God?
Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, || And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Psalms 143:2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, || For no one living is justified before You.
Ecclesiastes 7:20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that does good and does not sin.
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 →