1 John 3:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

New Living Translation
Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.

English Standard Version
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

Berean Study Bible
No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

New American Standard Bible
No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him.

NASB 1995
No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

NASB 1977
No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

Amplified Bible
No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him.

Christian Standard Bible
Everyone who remains in him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen him or known him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Everyone who remains in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him or known Him.

Contemporary English Version
and people who stay one in their hearts with him won't keep on sinning. If they do keep on sinning, they don't know Christ, and they have never seen him.

Good News Translation
So everyone who lives in union with Christ does not continue to sin; but whoever continues to sin has never seen him or known him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who live in Christ don't go on sinning. Those who go on sinning haven't seen or known Christ.

International Standard Version
No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn't seen him or known him.

NET Bible
Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

New King James Version
Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

King James 2000 Bible
Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.

New Heart English Bible
Whoever remains in him does not sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

World English Bible
Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

American King James Version
Whoever stays in him sins not: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.

American Standard Version
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

A Faithful Version
Everyone who dwells in Him does not practice sin; anyone who practices sin has not seen Him, nor has known Him.

Darby Bible Translation
Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him.

English Revised Version
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever abideth in him sinneth not: whoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Whosoeuer abideth in him, sinneth not: whosoeuer sinneth, hath not seene him, neither hath knowen him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
As many as byde in hym, sinne not: whosoeuer sinneth, hath not seene him, neither knowen hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Who so euer abydeth in him, synneth not: who soeuer synneth, hath not sene him nether knowne him.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
As many as byde in him synne not: whosoever synneth hath not sene him nether hath knowen him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
everyone who is remaining in Him does not sin; everyone who is sinning, has not seen Him, nor known Him.

Berean Literal Bible
Anyone abiding in Him does not sin; anyone sinning has not seen Him, nor has he known Him.

Young's Literal Translation
every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

Smith's Literal Translation
Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Anyone not abiding in Him sins; anyone sinning has not seen Him nor has he known Him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not; and whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Everyone who abides in him does not sin. For whoever sins has not seen him, and has not known him.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
No one who remains in him commits sin, and no one who sins has seen him, neither has he known him.

Lamsa Bible
Whoever abides in him does not sin: and whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him.

Godbey New Testament
No one abiding in him is sinning: every one sinning does not see him, nor know him.

Haweis New Testament
Every one who abideth in him, doth not sin; every one who sinneth hath not seen him, nor known him.

Mace New Testament
whosoever adheres to him, sinneth not: whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, he does not know him.

Weymouth New Testament
No one who continues in union with Him lives in sin: no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him.

Worrell New Testament
Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Worsley New Testament
Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, nor known Him.
















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