1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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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 13:12“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
2 Kings 20:15He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them.”
Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 143:2Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t 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 →