1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Noyes 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
Job 9:2Of a truth, I know that it is so: For how can man be just before God?
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, And he that is born of woman, that he should be innocent?
Psalms 143:2Enter not into judgment with thy servant; For before thee no man living is righteous.
Ecclesiastes 7:20Truly there is not a righteous man upon the earth who doeth good and sinneth not.
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 →