What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
1 John 1:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If we say (claim) we have not sinned, we contradict His Word and make Him out to be false and a liar, and His Word is not in us [the divine message of the Gospel is not in our hearts]. American Standard Version (1901) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Common English Bible If we claim, “We have never sinned,” we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Catholic Public Domain Version If we claim that we have not sinned, then we make him a liar, and his Word is not in us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. |
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?*
Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
One who says, *I know him,* and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: