...say that he shall pray for it. 1 7 All unrighteousness is sin : and there is a sin not unto death. 18 We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the...

...remaineth in him ; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." And again, in another place, he says, " We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." That the apostle does not mean to teach the sinless perfection of believers is manifest from many considerations....

...love one another, for every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God." And again he says, " We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not,...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." " For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world,...

...true and enlightened convert tc Christianity, very valuable is the testimony of the apostle John. " We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not."* " Whosoever," says he, " abideth in him, (/. e. in Christ,) sinneth not ; whosoever sinneth hath not...

...doth not commit sin ; for HIS SEED remaineth in him ; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." " We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." St. Peter also speaks of "that incorruptible seed :""f" the divine principle, the Holy Ghost, the indwelling...

...inherit the kingdom of God:" aud it is said by John, 1st Epistle, 5th Chapter, 18th verse.—"Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." But though they say they are born again, and they are the children of the kingdom, yet if they do not...

...justice to himself : and this, I conceive, corresponds most strictly, with what immediately follows : < But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself; and that wicked one toucheth him not.' The interposed condition of his 'keeping himself,' evidently points the sense to what he may do ; not...

...live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. (1 Peter 4: 1,2) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. ( I John 5:18) Sister White further denied the words of Heppenstall most specifically: Those only who...

...converted, he has also a new nature, and of this new nature, the newly-created person within, we read, "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;...keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not" (I John 5:18). That does not mean that a Christian never sins — but it means that there is a new...

...manifold iniquities of his blessed ones'. Yet a mere four pages before he had claimed starkly that 'we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not,...God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not'.42 Such claims certainly went way beyond anything conceded to the godly by Denison. Etherington...