1 John 1:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

Cross References

Romans 3:23

For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;

James 3:2

For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

Isaiah 53:6

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

1 John 2:4

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

Proverbs 20:9

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Galatians 6:3

For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

Isaiah 64:6

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

Psalm 143:2

Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

James 1:26

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

1 Timothy 6:5

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

1 Kings 8:46

If they do wrong against you, for no man is without sin, and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they do wrong against you, for no man is without sin, and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

2 John 1:2

Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

1 John 1:6

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

2 Timothy 3:13

Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

Job 9:2

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

3 John 1:3

For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

2 Peter 2:13

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

Jeremiah 2:35

And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

Romans 3:10

As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

1 John 4:20

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

Leviticus 13:12

And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see,

2 Kings 20:15

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.