1 John 5:18

The Passion Translation

We are convinced that everyone fathered by God does not make sinning a way of life, because the Son of God protects the child of God, and the Evil One cannot touch him.

Cross References

Psalm 119:101

I refused to bend my morals when temptation was before me so that I could become obedient to your Word.

Psalm 119:3

They’ll never do what’s wrong but will always choose the paths of the Lord.

Psalm 17:4

Following your word has kept me from wrong. Your ways have molded my footsteps, keeping me from going down the paths of the violent.

Psalm 18:23

I’ve been blameless before him and followed all his ways, keeping my heart pure.

Psalm 39:1

Here’s my life motto, the truth I live by: I will guard my ways for all my days. I will speak only what is right, guarding what I speak. Like a watchman guards against an attack of the enemy, I’ll guard and muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around me. I will remain silent and will not grumble or speak out of my disappointment. But the longer I’m silent, the more my pain grows worse!

Proverbs 4:23

So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.

Matthew 5:37

A simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ will suffice. Anything beyond this springs from a deceiver.

Matthew 6:13

Rescue us every time we face tribulation and set us free from evil. For you are the King who rules with power and glory forever. Amen.’

John 1:13

He was not born by the joining of human parents or from natural means, or by a man’s desire, but he was born of God.

John 14:30

I won’t speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this dark world is coming. But he has no power over me, for he has nothing to use against me.

John 15:4

So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.

John 15:7

But if you live in life-union with me and if my words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.

John 15:9

“I love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts.

Acts 11:23

When he got there and witnessed for himself God’s marvelous grace, he was enthused and overjoyed. He encouraged the believers to remain faithful and cling to the Lord with passionate hearts.

James 1:18

God was delighted to give us birth by the truth of his infallible Word so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny for us and become the favorite ones out of all his creation!

James 1:27

True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values.

1 Peter 1:23

For through the eternal and living Word of God you have been born again. And this “seed” that he planted within you can never be destroyed but will live and grow inside of you forever. For:

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who lives in righteousness has been divinely fathered by him.

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who yielded to the Evil One and brutally murdered his own brother, Abel. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s righteous.

1 John 3:3

And all who focus their hope on him will always be purifying themselves, just as Jesus is pure.

1 John 3:9

Everyone who is truly God’s child will refuse to keep sinning because God’s seed remains within him, and he is unable to continue sinning because he has been fathered by God himself.

1 John 4:6

But we belong to God, and whoever truly knows God listens to us. Those who refuse to listen to us do not belong to God. That is how we can know the difference between the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is God’s spiritual child and has been fathered by God himself. And everyone who loves Father God loves his children as well.

1 John 5:15

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the misery and influence of the Evil One.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has made our understanding come alive so that we can know by experience the One who is true. And we are in him who is true, God’s Son, Jesus Christ—the true God and eternal life!

1 John 5:21

So, little children, guard yourselves from worshiping anything but him.

1 John 5:4

You see, every child of God overcomes the world, for our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world.

Jude 1:21

Fasten your hearts to the love of God and receive the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who gives us eternal life.

Jude 1:24

Now, to the one with enough power to prevent you from stumbling into sin and bring you faultless before his glorious presence to stand before him with ecstatic delight,

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live—where Satan sits enthroned, yet you still cling faithfully to the power of my name. You did not deny your faith in me even in the days of my faithful martyr Antipas, who was executed in your city, where Satan lives.