If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

And you know that He was manifested in order to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

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

When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to a land far or near;

Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just before the Mighty God? Or how can one be pure who is born of a woman?

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is stained before Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing its ways.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a flawless man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish that he may become wise.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But evil men and pretenders will grow worse and worse, leading astray and being led astray.

But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but beguiles his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who consider it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever.

For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and bore witness of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in truth.