1 John 1:8

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and You get angry with them and hand them over to the enemy so that they are carried away as captives to the land of the enemy, far or near,

2 Kings 20:15

He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

2 Chronicles 6:36

“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin) and You are angry against them and give them to their enemies, and they are taken captive to a land, whether distant or near,

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no one.

Job 15:14

“What is man that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

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

Job 9:2

“Truly, I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous with God?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is righteous.

Proverbs 20:9

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who only does good and refrains from sin.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

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

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely His anger shall turn away from me.” Behold, I will judge you, because you say, “I have not sinned.”

Leviticus 13:12

If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the disease covers all the skin of the person who has the disease from his head to his feet, wherever the priest looks,

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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 one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may be wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if someone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

constant disputes by men of corrupt minds, being destitute of the truth, and supposing that financial gain is godliness. Withdraw yourself from such men.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

James 1:22

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

James 1:26

If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

James 3:2

We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.

2 Peter 2:13

They shall receive the wages of unrighteousness. They count it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes who revel in their own deception while they carouse together 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, yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 4:20

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

2 John 1:2

for the sake of the truth, which remains in us, and will be with us forever:

3 John 1:3

For I greatly rejoiced when brothers came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth.