1 John 1:6

Claiming fellowship with God while living in sin is a lie. Conduct must match confession.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Jn 4:20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• 1 Jn 2:4One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
• John 3:19–21This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Prov 4:18–19But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Prov 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
• 1 Jn 1:10If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• 2 Cor 6:14–16Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• John 11:10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
• Ps 5:4–6For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.
• Jas 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
• 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• Jas 2:18Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
• Rev 3:17–18Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• John 8:44–45You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• 1 Jn 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 Jn 2:9–11He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
• Jas 2:16and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
• 1 Tim 4:2through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
• Ps 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• Ps 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
• Matt 7:22Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

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