1 John 1:8

New King James 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

“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

2 Kings 20:15

And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures 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 become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near;

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

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

Job 25:4

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

Job 9:2

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

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter 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 clean, I am pure from my sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent, Surely His anger shall turn from me.’ Behold, I will plead My case against you, Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Leviticus 13:12

“And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, wherever the priest looks,

John 8:44

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

Romans 3:10

As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall 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 become wise.

Galatians 6:3

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

1 Timothy 6:5

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

2 Timothy 3:13

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

James 1:22

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

James 1:26

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

2 Peter 2:13

and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while 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 walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

1 John 2:4

He who 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 someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

2 John 1:2

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

3 John 1:3

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