1 John 1:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

2 Kings 20:15

He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

2 Chronicles 6:36

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,

Job 14:4

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

Job 15:14

What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Job 9:2

“Indeed, I know that this is so, but how can a mortal be just before God?

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”

Leviticus 13:12

But if the defiling disease breaks out in the skin so that it covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 3:10

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

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.

2 Peter 2:13

suffering the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures 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 while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

2 John 1:2

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

3 John 1:3

For I was overjoyed when some brothers and sisters arrived and testified to your faithfulness to the truth, how you walk in the truth.