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NASB | 1 John 3:6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:6 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. |
Subject: The effects of Repentance |
Bible Note: If you don't mind, I'd like to add a quote from another Baptist. :-) It fits hand in glove with your post, I think. "True repentance is always accompanied by sorrow. "Repentance is a deep, radical, fundamental, lasting change; and you will find that, whenever you meet with it in Scripture, it is always accompanied with sorrow for past sin. And rest assured of this fact -- that the repentance which has no tear in its eye, and no mourning for sin in its heart, is a repentance which needs to be repented of. In such false repentance, there is no evidence of conversion, and no sign of the existence of the grace of God. "The man who knows that his sin is forgiven, does not cease to mourn for it. No, brethren, his mourning becomes deeper as his knowledge of his guilt becomes greater. His hatred of sin grows in proportion as he understands that love of Christ by which his sin is put away. "In true believers, mourning for sin is chastened and sweetened, and, in one sense, the fang of bitterness is taken out. "But, in another sense, the more we realize our indebtedness to God's grace, and the more we see of the sufferings of Christ in order to effect our redemption, the more do we hate sin, and the more do we lament that we ever fell into it. The man who has led the purest life, when he is brought before God by the humbling influence of the Holy Spirit, is the man who almost invariably considers himself to have been viler than anybody else." --Charles H. Spurgeon |