Parallel Verses

Williams New Testament

No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him.

New American Standard Bible

No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

King James Version

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Holman Bible

Everyone who remains in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him or known Him.

International Standard Version

No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn't seen him or known him.

A Conservative Version

Every man abiding in him does not sin. Every man who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.

American Standard Version

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

Amplified

No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him.

An Understandable Version

No person who lives in [fellowship with] Christ will continue living a sinful life; the one who keeps on sinning [however], has not seen Him or known Him [as his personal Savior].

Anderson New Testament

Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him.

Bible in Basic English

Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

Common New Testament

No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has either seen him or known him.

Daniel Mace New Testament

whosoever adheres to him, sinneth not: whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, he does not know him.

Darby Translation

Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

Whoever abides in him, does not sin. Whoever sins has not seen him, neither has known him.

Godbey New Testament

No one abiding in him is sinning: every one sinning does not see him, nor know him.

Goodspeed New Testament

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

John Wesley New Testament

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not; whosoever sinneth, seeth him not, neither knoweth him.

Julia Smith Translation

Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him.

King James 2000

Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Modern King James verseion

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

All that abide in him, sin not: And all that sin hath not seen him, neither hath known him.

Moffatt New Testament

anyone who remains in him does not sin ??anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him.

Montgomery New Testament

Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.

NET Bible

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

New Heart English Bible

Whoever remains in him does not sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Noyes New Testament

Whoever abideth in him sinneth not; whoever sinneth hath not seen him, nor known him.

Sawyer New Testament

No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.

The Emphasized Bible

Whosoever, in him, doth abide, is not sinning: whosoever is sinning, hath not seen him, and doth not understand him.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Every one who abideth in him, doth not sin; every one who sinneth hath not seen him, nor known him.

Twentieth Century New Testament

No one who maintains union with him lives in sin; no one who lives in sin has ever really seen him or learned to know him.

Webster

Whoever abideth in him sinneth not: whoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Weymouth New Testament

No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.

World English Bible

Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Worrell New Testament

Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Worsley New Testament

Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, nor known Him.

Youngs Literal Translation

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

μένω 
meno 
Usage: 85

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

him



Usage: 0
Usage: 0

ἁμαρτάνω 
Hamartano 
ἁμαρτάνω 
Hamartano 
Usage: 35
Usage: 35

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

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ὁράω 
Horao 
see, take heed, behold, perceive, not tr
Usage: 36

ὁράω 
Horao 
see, take heed, behold, perceive, not tr
Usage: 36

οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 3:6

References

Images 1 John 3:6

Prayers for 1 John 3:6

Context Readings

Children Of God

5 You know that He appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in Him. 6 No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him. 7 Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.



Cross References

3 John 1:11

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, "I know Him," but does not practice obedience to His commands is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

1 John 3:9

No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:2

Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

John 15:4-7

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with faces uncovered, because we continue to reflect like mirrors the splendor of the Lord, are being transformed into likeness to Him, from one degree of splendor to another, since it comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

1 John 2:28

And now, dear children, I repeat, you must continue to live in union with Him, so that if He is unveiled, we may have unshaken confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame when He comes.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, but the Son who was born of God continues to keep him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

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