◄ 1 John 3:9 ►
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Good News Translation
Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God’s seed abides in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.

Contemporary English Version
God's children cannot keep on being sinful. His life-giving power lives in them and makes them his children, so they cannot keep on sinning.

New American Bible
No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

born.

1 John 2:29 If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 4:7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

1 John 5:1,4,18 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. . . .

John 1:13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

for.

Job 19:28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

and he.

Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Romans 6:2 God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

Context
Children of God
…8He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:3
For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.

John 1:13
Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

1 John 2:29
If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:6
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath not seen him nor known him.

1 John 4:7
Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.

3 John 1:11
Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.

1 John 3:8
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