1 John 3:9

New American Bible - revised edition

No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.

Cross References

Job 19:28

But you who say, “How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?”

Psalm 119:3

They do no wrong; they walk in his ways.

Leviticus 11:37

If any part of their carcasses falls on any sort of grain that is to be sown, it remains clean;

Matthew 7:18

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.

John 1:13

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

Acts 4:20

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Romans 6:2

How can we who died to sin yet live in it?

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,

1 John 2:29

If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.

1 John 3:6

No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves [also] the one begotten by him.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one begotten by God sins; but the one begotten by God he protects, and the evil one cannot touch him.

1 John 5:4

for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does what is good is of God; whoever does what is evil has never seen God.