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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59-0628E §76
"Do Christians sin?" Absolutely no! There is no Scripture where a Christian sins. He cannot sin. I know there's a resentment to that. Well, we will just go to I John 3 and see what the Scripture says. A Christian does not sin. Did you ever see a black, white bird or a white, black bird? Did you ever see a drunk, sober man? No! You never did see a sinner, saint either. There's no such a thing. Now, if this gets just a little touchy, you just put a lot of balm in, you know, and it'll cure up just in a little bit now.
Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 2
57-0922 §63
[you can't, no matter what you do]. You can quit drinking, quit smoking, quit telling lies, go to church and try to do this and try to do that, you're still carnal. That's just law; the law makes nothing perfect. But what makes perfect? Christ! Glory! I might quit lying, quit stealing, quit committing adultery, quit chewing, quit all the things, and I'm still carnal! God don't receive it, because I have nothing to offer Him in propitiation. But the minute that I lay my hands upon the blessed head of the Lord Jesus,...
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62-0527 §29
Now, but ... see. God, when He passed the judgment upon Adam and Eve, she'd already done the sin before He could pass the judgment. And, listen, did you ever know that the first child was ever born in the world was "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies"? The very first one that was ever born was born that way. You say, "What about Adam and Eve?" They wasn't born. They were created, see. But the first child ever come was born in sin, so it has to be that line. "A man that's born of a woma...