“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2)

What an incredible thing that is! When we sin, we get to completely start over with a clean slate! Talk about taking a load off!

There are SO many Scriptures on that topic. When it all comes down to it, that is the gospel right there: By God’s grace, accepted through faith, Jesus Christ has saved us from sin by becoming sin for us so that we could be the righteousness of God in Him, so now we must bear works worthy of repentance!

Here are a few more Scriptures that go along with this topic:

Ephesians 4:11-13 — “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ…” Here, Paul says that it is possible to be like Christ — it is possible for us to come to “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,” the perfect Man.

Genesis 17:1-2 — “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, ‘I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.’” We know from the NT that Abraham’s seed was multiplied (and we see from this Scripture that it was BECAUSE he walked perfectly before God), so if Abraham could be perfect according to God’s standards, then we can too!

1 John 5:18 — “We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” If we truly love God, we will be afraid to sin against Him; we will keep ourselves from sin, because we want to please Him.

However, this refers to our past state, before we were washed with the cleansing blood of Jesus. Read this:
“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2)

“Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” (1 John 3:7-9)

That seed in us is the Holy Spirit, producing in us holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)

If we had no sin, we would not need a Savior. But the Savior’s purpose was to save us from sin, so we can now live a sinless life. Everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes we do sin. But temptation is never too much for us. “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:14) For this reason I believe that it is indeed possible to live a sinless life. What freedom that is, to be able to live with no temptation overcoming you, and that not of yourself, but by the grace of God!

It is popular to quote Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Doesn’t that mean that through Christ we overcome sin?

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

If it were possible to live a sinless life there would be no need for repentance.

Let me add that if you ARE a Christian then you WANT to be like Christ and sinless. If you are making excuses that you are just human and will sin and don’t do a thing ato try and stop it, then you are NOT saved!