1 John 5:18
We have known that everyone who has been begotten of God does not sin, but He who was begotten of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin [that is] not to death.
19we have known that we are of God, and the whole world lies [under the power] of the evil [one];
Cross References
Psalms 17:4As for doings of man, || Through a word of Your lips I have observed || The paths of a destroyer;
Psalms 39:1TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, || Against sinning with my tongue, || I keep a curb for my mouth, || While the wicked [is] before me.”
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep your heart, || For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
John 3:2this one came to Him by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we have known that You have come from God—a teacher, for no one is able to do these signs that You do, if God may not be with him.”
John 15:4remain in Me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither you, if you may not remain in Me.
John 15:9According as the Father loved Me, I also 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 →