Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

New American Standard Bible

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

King James Version

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Holman Bible

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

International Standard Version

If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we're not being truthful to ourselves.

A Conservative Version

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

American Standard Version

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Amplified

If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us. [His word does not live in our hearts.]

An Understandable Version

If we claim to have no sinful practices [in our lives], we are self-deceived and are not being truthful about the matter.

Anderson New Testament

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Bible in Basic English

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

Common New Testament

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Daniel Mace New Testament

If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and have no regard to truth.

Darby Translation

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Godbey New Testament

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Goodspeed New Testament

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

John Wesley New Testament

If we say, we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Julia Smith Translation

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

King James 2000

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Modern King James verseion

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us.

Moffatt New Testament

If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

Montgomery New Testament

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

NET Bible

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

New Heart English Bible

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Noyes New Testament

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Sawyer New Testament

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The Emphasized Bible

If we say - Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Twentieth Century New Testament

If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth has no place in us.

Webster

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Weymouth New Testament

If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.

Williams New Testament

If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts.

World English Bible

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Worrell New Testament

If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Worsley New Testament

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Youngs Literal Translation

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

we say
ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

we have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

no
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

we deceive
πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive, err, go astray, seduce, wander, be out of the way
Usage: 25

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the truth
ἀλήθεια 
Aletheia 
Usage: 87

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 1:8

Images 1 John 1:8

Prayers for 1 John 1:8

Context Readings

God Is Light, So Walk In The Light

7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us [our] sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


Cross References

James 3:2

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

1 John 2:4

The one who says "I have come to know him," and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.

Job 15:14

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

Proverbs 20:9

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

2 Chronicles 6:36

When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,

1 Kings 8:46

"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,

Job 9:2

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

Job 14:4

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!

Job 25:4

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 143:2

And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 64:6

And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.

Jeremiah 2:22-23

For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

1 Timothy 6:5

constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

James 1:22

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

James 1:26

If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.

2 Peter 2:13

being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 3:5-6

And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him [there] is no sin.

2 John 1:2

because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us {forever}.

3 John 1:3

For I rejoiced exceedingly [when the] brothers came and testified [to] your truth, just as you are walking in [the] truth.

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