1 John 3:9

New Century Version

Those who are God’s children do not continue sinning, because the new life from God remains in them. They are not able to go on sinning, because they have become children of God.

Cross References

Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘We will continue to trouble Job, because the problem lies with him,’

Psalm 119:3

They don’t do what is wrong; they follow his ways.

Leviticus 11:37

If a dead, unclean animal falls on a seed to be planted, that seed is still clean.

Matthew 7:18

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

John 1:13

They did not become his children in any human way—by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.

John 3:3

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s kingdom.”

Acts 4:20

We cannot keep quiet. We must speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Romans 6:2

No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin?

Galatians 5:17

Our sinful selves want what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against our sinful selves. The two are against each other, so you cannot do just what you please.

Titus 1:2

That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again, and this new life did not come from something that dies, but from something that cannot die. You were born again through God’s living message that continues forever.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that Christ is righteous, you know that all who do right are God’s children.

1 John 3:6

So anyone who lives in Christ does not go on sinning. Anyone who goes on sinning has never really understood Christ and has never known him.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child, and whoever loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

1 John 5:18

We know that those who are God’s children do not continue to sin. The Son of God keeps them safe, and the Evil One cannot touch them.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who is a child of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world—our faith.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not follow what is bad; follow what is good. The one who does good belongs to God. But the one who does evil has never known God.