1 John 1:8
If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 13:12Also if the leprosie breake out in the skin, and the leprosie couer all the skin of the plague, from his head euen to his feete, wheresoeuer the Priest looketh,
2 Kings 20:15Then saide he, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that I haue not shewed the.
Job 9:2I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
Psalms 143:2(And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)
Ecclesiastes 7:20It is good that thou lay hold on this: but yet withdrawe not thine hand from that: for he that feareth God, shall come forth of them all.
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 →