1 John 1:8

New American Standard Bible 2020

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“When they sin against You (for there is no person who does not sin) and You are angry with them and turn them over to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, distant or near;

2 Kings 20:15

Isaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them.”

2 Chronicles 6:36

“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You are angry with them and turn them over to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to a land far off or near,

Job 14:4

“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

“How then can mankind be righteous with God? Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure?

Job 9:2

“In truth I know that this is so; But how can a person be in the right with God?

Psalm 143:2

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no person living is righteous in Your sight.

Proverbs 20:9

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Indeed, there is not a righteous person on earth who always does good and does not ever 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 caused the wrongdoing of us all To fall on Him.

Isaiah 64:6

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

You said, ‘I am innocent; Surely His anger is turned away from me.’ Behold, I will enter into judgment with you Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Leviticus 13:12

If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the person who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

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. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 3:10

as it is written: “There is no righteous person, not even one;

Romans 3:23

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

Take care that no one deceives himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

James 1:22

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.

James 1:26

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to rein in the whole body as well.

2 Peter 2:13

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they feast 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 and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

1 John 2:4

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 4:20

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

2 John 1:2

because of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever:

3 John 1:3

For I was overjoyed when brothers came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth.