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

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Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

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For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature,[a] able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.2 Gk a mature man

23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;(A)

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20 Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.(A)

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)

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All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.(A)

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Who can say, “I have made my heart clean;
    I am pure from my sin”?(A)

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Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
    for no one living is righteous before you.(A)

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10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.(A)

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For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.(A)

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We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)

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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
    No one can.(A)

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46 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,(A)

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because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

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and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.[a](A)

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  1. 6.5 Other ancient authorities add Withdraw yourself from such people

How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.(A) No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.

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If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

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26 If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.(A)

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13 But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.(A)

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18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.(A)

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36 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,(A)

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22 But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.(A)

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“Indeed, I know that this is so,
    but how can a mortal be just before God?(A)

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