Passage
No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him.
1 John 3:6 (LSB)
Nearby Context
1 John 3:4 Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
1 John 3:6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
1 John 3:8 The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "abides", "sins", "seen", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "abides" and "sins", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 5's "And you know that He was manifested..." into verse 7's "Little children let no one deceive you...", so "abides" and "sins" belong inside that flow. In 1 John context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "abides" and "sins" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.