1 John 1:8

Denying that we have sin is self-deception, not truth. Honest believers acknowledge their sinfulness.

Cross-references · 27

• Rom 3:23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
• Jas 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• 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.
• 1 Jn 1:10If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Prov 20:9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Gal 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• 1 Kgs 8:46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• 1 Tim 6:5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
• 2 Chr 6:36“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• 1 Jn 1:6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
• 1 Jn 3:5–6You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• 2 Jn 1:2for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
• Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
• Jas 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 3 Jn 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
• 2 Pet 2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Jer 2:22–23For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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