1 John 1:8 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Common English Bible

⁸ If we claim, “We don’t have any sin,” we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, then we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

English Standard Version 2016

⁸ If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:8 Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

2 Kings 20:15

And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Job 9:2

I know it is so of a truth: But how should man be just with God?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

Leviticus 13:12

And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Romans 3:10

as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

James 1:22

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:2

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

2 Peter 2:13

and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 4:20

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

2 John 1:2

for the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

3 John 1:3

For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.