1 John 1:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

1 John 1:8 Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

2 Kings 20:15

He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

2 Chronicles 6:36

“If they sin against thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near;

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Job 9:2

“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

Proverbs 20:9

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Isaiah 53:6

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

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’

Leviticus 13:12

And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 3:10

as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:13

while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:26

If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:2

For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

2 Peter 2:13

suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you.

1 John 1:10

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

1 John 1:6

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth;

1 John 2:4

He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 4:20

If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

2 John 1:2

because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:

3 John 1:3

For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.