1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Unlocked Literal 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 13:12If the disease breaks out widely in the skin and covers all the skin of the person with the disease from his head to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
2 Kings 20:15Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing among my valuable things that I have not shown them.”
Job 9:2“I truly know that this is so. 1 But how can a person be in the right with God? 1
Job 15:14What is man that he should be clean? 1 What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous? 1
Psalms 143:2Do not enter into judgment with your servant, 1 for in your sight no one is righteous. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is not a righteous man on earth 2 who does good and never sins. 1
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 →