1 John 5:18

Those born of God do not continue in sin, for the Son keeps them and the evil one cannot harm them. New birth brings protection and a changed life.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Jn 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
• 1 Jn 5:4because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• Jude 1:21keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
• Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
• 1 Jn 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
• 1 Pet 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Ps 119:101I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
• Rev 3:8–10I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.
• John 15:9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
• John 3:2–5He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• Ps 18:23And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
• Ps 17:4As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
• Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• 1 Jn 2:13–14I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
• John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
• Ps 39:1For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
• John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• 1 Jn 4:6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
• Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
• Rev 2:13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• John 14:30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
• 1 Jn 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• John 15:4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

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