If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Gill's Exposition
If we say that we have not sinned,.... Have never sinned, in time past as well as now; deny original sin, and that men are born in sin, but affirm they come into the world pure and holy; and assert…
Barnes' Notes
If we say that we have not sinned - In times that are past. Some perhaps might be disposed to say this; and as the apostle is careful to guard every point, he here states that if a man should take the…
Here, I. The apostle, having supposed that even those of this heavenly communion have yet their sin, proceeds here to justify that supposition, and this he does by showing the dreadful consequences of…
Cambridge Bible
that we have not sinned This is not the same as -that we have no sin" (1Jn 1:1), and therefore we have once more not repetition, but expansion and strengthening of what precedes. -Have no sin" refers…
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