What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
1 John 1:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If we say (claim) we have not sinned, we contradict His Word and make Him out to be false and a liar, and His Word is not in us [the divine message of the Gospel is not in our hearts]. American Standard Version (1901) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Common English Bible If we claim, “We have never sinned,” we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Catholic Public Domain Version If we claim that we have not sinned, then we make him a liar, and his Word is not in us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. |
What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”
Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified this, that God is true.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.