1 John 3:9

Weymouth NT

No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin–because he is a child of God.

Cross References

Matthew 7:18

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a poisonous tree good fruit.

John 1:13

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

John 3:3

»In most solemn truth I tell you,« answered Jesus, »that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God.«

Acts 4:20

As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about.«

Romans 6:2

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Galatians 5:17

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

Titus 1:2

in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

1 John 3:6

No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

1 John 5:1

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father loves also Him who is the Father's Child.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, but He who is God's Child keeps him, and the Evil one cannot touch him.

1 John 5:4

For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not follow wrong examples, but right ones. He who habitually does what is right is a child of God: he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God.