Is It Possible to Ever Be Completely Free of Sin in This Life and Become Perfectly Sinless?
1) Direct Answer
- Not in the fleshly sense. In this life you will not reach a state where your body and human faculties never fail. But in Christ you can be truly free from the dominion of sin, and before God you stand perfectly sinless by the blood. The born‑again life does not practice sin.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves” (1 John 1:8). That shuts the door on fleshly perfectionism.
- Yet it also says, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin… and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9), and “Sin shall not have dominion over you” (Romans 6:14). That shows the new birth brings a life that does not live in sin.
- “By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14). In Christ, God sees you perfect.
- “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus… who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1,4).
- “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). We are kept clean by His intercession as we walk in the light (1 John 1:7,9).
- Paul said, “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect… but I press toward the mark” (Philippians 3:12‑14). We are pressing, overcoming, not boasting of flawless flesh.
- Christ “loved the church… that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:25‑27). That is our standing and our aim.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice: the new birth plants God’s seed in the soul. Sin, at its root, is unbelief. The inner man born of God believes and cannot sin; he will not live in willful disobedience. But you still carry mortal flesh with weaknesses. So a believer may stumble, but he does not practice sin or stay in it. He confesses, is cleansed, and walks on.
- You see, it’s not fleshly perfection; it’s spiritual victory. Not sinless flesh, but sin not imputed because of the blood (2 Corinthians 5:21). Not bondage to sin, but freedom indeed (John 8:36). Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
4) Reinforcing Statement
- So, no to boasting of sinless flesh; yes to a holy life where sin’s rule is broken, failures are confessed, and Christ’s perfect righteousness keeps you without condemnation as you walk in the light. That’s the mystery of perfection: perfect in Christ, overcoming in daily life, until this mortal puts on immortality.
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Ye must be born again
58-0619B §44
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The Lamb's book of life
56-0603 §36
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Can we see Jesus?
58-0619E §8
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Standing in the gap
63-0623M §36
And today, He's the only mediator between God and man, and we're freely pardoned and forgiven. God don't even know we ever sinned. Our sins were put in the sea of forgetfulness never to be remembered, no more. We cannot do that ourself; we're finite. He's infinite. And our finite... We can still remember because we're not big enough; but He's so great, that He even forgets we ever did sin. We are sons and daughters in His presence. And all things that He was, we are. He become my sin, that I might become His righte...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §11
But a man once put his hands... Oh, my! A man put his hands on the head of Jesus Christ and confess his sins, feeling the pains and agony of Calvary, what He had to pay to redeem a man from sin! And the Holy Spirit, out of the blood of Jesus Christ, comes cleansing that man, he goes out a new creature, and it's once for all. He goes out a different person. He goes out with all the sin problem settled forever. "For by one sacrifice," says the Scripture here, "he has perfected forever them that are sanctified." And H...