1 John 3:8

World English Bible (2000)

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
  • John 16:11 : 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
  • Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
  • John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
  • Col 2:15 : 15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
  • Rom 16:20 : 20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
  • Rev 20:2-3 : 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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  • 1 John 3:9-12
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    9Whoever 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.

    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

    11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

    12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • 1 John 3:4-7
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    4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

    5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

    6Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

    7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

  • John 8:44
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    44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

  • 1 John 5:17-19
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    17All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

    18We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

    19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

    6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

    7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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    34Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

  • Heb 2:14
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    14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

  • John 3:18-21
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    18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

    19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

    20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

    21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

  • 1 John 2:1-2
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    1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

    2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

    8Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

    9Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

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    29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

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    11Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

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    15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

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    12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

    13I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

    14I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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    23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • Mark 3:26-27
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    26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.

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  • 1 John 4:3-4
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    3and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

    4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

  • 1 John 2:22
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    22Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

  • John 3:16
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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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    9even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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    9about sin, because they don't believe in me;

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--