1 John 1:8

New Century Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“Everyone sins, so your people will also sin against you. You will become angry with them and hand them over to their enemies. Their enemies will capture them and take them away to their countries far or near.

2 Kings 20:15

So Isaiah asked him, “What did they see in your palace?” Hezekiah said, “They saw everything in my palace. I showed them all my wealth.”

2 Chronicles 6:36

“Everyone sins, so your people will also sin against you. You will become angry with them and will hand them over to their enemies. Their enemies will capture them and take them away to a country far or near.

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 9:2

“Yes, I know that this is true, but how can anyone be right in the presence of God?

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Proverbs 20:9

No one can say, “I am innocent; I have never done anything wrong.”

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a good person on earth who always does good and never sins.

Isaiah 53:6

We all have wandered away like sheep; each of us has gone his own way. But the Lord has put on him the punishment for all the evil we have done.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us are dirty with sin. All the right things we have done are like filthy pieces of cloth. All of us are like dead leaves, and our sins, like the wind, have carried us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

but you say, ‘I am innocent. God is not angry with me.’ But I will judge you guilty of lying, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Leviticus 13:12

“If the skin disease spreads all over a person’s body, covering his skin from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, the priest must look at the person’s whole body.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 3:10

As the Scriptures say: “There is no one who always does what is right, not even one.

Romans 3:23

Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not fool yourselves. If you think you are wise in this world, you should become a fool so that you can become truly wise,

Galatians 6:3

If anyone thinks he is important when he really is not, he is only fooling himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant quarrels from those who have evil minds and have lost the truth. They think that serving God is a way to get rich.

2 Timothy 3:13

But people who are evil and cheat others will go from bad to worse. They will fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.

James 1:22

Do what God’s teaching says; when you only listen and do nothing, you are fooling yourselves.

James 1:26

People who think they are religious but say things they should not say are just fooling themselves. Their “religion” is worth nothing.

James 3:2

We all make many mistakes. If people never said anything wrong, they would be perfect and able to control their entire selves, too.

2 Peter 2:13

They have caused many people to suffer, so they themselves will suffer. That is their pay for what they have done. They take pleasure in openly doing evil, so they are like dirty spots and stains among you. They delight in deceiving you while eating meals with you.

1 John 1:10

If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and we do not accept God’s teaching.

1 John 1:6

So if we say we have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, we are liars and do not follow the truth.

1 John 2:4

Anyone who says, “I know God,” but does not obey God’s commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 4:20

If people say, “I love God,” but hate their brothers or sisters, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen.

2 John 1:2

We love you because of the truth that lives in us and will be with us forever.

3 John 1:3

I was very happy when some brothers and sisters came and told me about the truth in your life and how you are following the way of truth.