1 John 3:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

Cross References

1 John 5:18

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

1 Peter 1:23

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

John 1:13

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

1 John 2:29

If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

1 John 5:4

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

John 3:3

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

1 John 4:7

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

Matthew 7:18

It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

Romans 6:2

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Acts 4:20

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

Titus 1:2

In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

Job 19:28

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Psalm 119:3

They do no evil; they go in his ways.

1 John 3:6

Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

3 John 1:11

My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

Leviticus 11:37

If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;