1 John 1:8

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Summary

1 John 1:8

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

Say

We deceive

2 Peter 2:13

General references

Hebrews 8:12

Bible References

Say

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

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

"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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We deceive

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.

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

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

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

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,

General references

because on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you; you must be clean from all your sins {before} Yahweh.

If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,

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

And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.

For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins [any] longer."