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 3:9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
• 1 Jn 5:4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• 1 Jn 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
• 1 Pet 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• Ps 119:101I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
• Rev 3:8–10“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
• John 15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• John 3:2–5The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
• Ps 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
• Ps 17:4As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
• Prov 4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
• 1 Jn 2:13–14I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
• John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• Ps 39:1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
• John 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• 1 Jn 4:6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Rev 2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• John 14:30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• 1 Jn 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
• John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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