1 John 1:6

1:6 If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

1 John 1:10

1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

1 John 3:5-6

3:5 And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 3:6 Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

1 John 3:1

3:1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

1 John 1:1-2

The Prologue to the Letter

1:1 This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life – 1:2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

1 John 1:1

The Prologue to the Letter

1:1 This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life –

Job 9:2

9:2 “Truly, I know that this is so.

But how can a human be just before God?

Job 14:4

14:4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean?

No one!

Job 15:14

15:14 What is man that he should be pure,

or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

25:4 How then can a human being be righteous before God?

How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalms 143:2

143:2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant,

for no one alive is innocent before you.

Proverbs 20:9

20:9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart clean;

I am pure from my sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

7:20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth

who continually does good and never sins.

Isaiah 53:6

53:6 All of us had wandered off like sheep;

each of us had strayed off on his own path,

but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

Isaiah 64:6

64:6 We are all like one who is unclean,

all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.

We all wither like a leaf;

our sins carry us away like the wind.

Jeremiah 2:22-23

2:22 You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent.

You can use as much soap as you want.

But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,”

says the Lord God.

2:23 “How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean.

I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.’

Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom!

Think about the things you have done there!

You are like a flighty, young female camel

that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.

Romans 3:23

3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

James 3:2

3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.