1 John 3:9 “Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides…”

1 John 3:9

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

World English Bible

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

American Standard Version

Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Whosoeuer is borne of God, sinneth not: for his seede remaineth in him, neither can hee sinne, because he is borne of God.

Darby Translation

Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

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Cross references

“born”

1 John 5:18 John 1:13 1 John 5:1 1 John 2:29 1 John 5:4 1 John 4:7

1 John 5:18 · BSB

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

John 1:13 · BSB

children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

1 John 5:1 · BSB

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

1 John 2:29 · BSB

If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

1 John 5:4 · BSB

because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

1 John 4:7 · BSB

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

“for”

1 Peter 1:23 Job 19:28

1 Peter 1:23 · BSB

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Job 19:28 · BSB

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him, ’

“and he”

Matthew 7:18 Galatians 5:17 Romans 6:2 Acts 4:20 Titus 1:2

Matthew 7:18 · BSB

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Galatians 5:17 · BSB

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Romans 6:2 · BSB

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Acts 4:20 · BSB

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Titus 1:2 · BSB

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Also

John 3:3

John 3:3 · BSB

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Read 1 John 3