Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 1 John 1:8

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

1 John 1:8 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 John 1:8, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of 1 John 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

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

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

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

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

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Romans 3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
  • Ecclesiastes 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
  • James 3:2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
  • Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • 1 John 2:4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Proverbs 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
  • Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Isaiah 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
  • Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Galatians 6:3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
  • James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • 1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy…
  • Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

More to meet God in 1 John

1 John 1:91 John 4:191 John 4:181 John 3:11 John 5:141 John 4:81 John 5:201 John 2:11 John 5:61 John 5:111 John 1:31 John 3:221 John 2:161 John 2:13

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.