Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him; 6 every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him. 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,



Cross References

3 John 1:11

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

1 John 2:4

he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

1 John 3:9

every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

1 John 3:2

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

1 John 4:8

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

John 15:4-7

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

2 Corinthians 3:18

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:6

because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:28

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

1 John 5:18

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

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