Continuing to sin

“No-one who lives in Him keeps on sinning. No-one who continues to sin has either seen Him or known Him.” 1 John 3:6
The Bible is clear that the grace we receive from God upon surrendering our lives to Christ, is most definitely not a license for sin. As Paul said, “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” (Rom. 6:1-2). John is even more emphatic here: saying that anyone who does continue in sin does not even know God.
Now it is important to understand what is meant by “continues to sin”. While we are in this mortal body, we will inevitably slip up from time to time. We lose our tempers and say and do hurtful things to other people; we give in to unforeseen temptation; we fail to do the good that we know we should (Jas. 4:17). This is not what is meant by “continues to sin”. Rather, it is a lifestyle of sin that we fail to give up upon coming to Christ. The Bible lists some of these: “Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10). “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, disocrd, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like... those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:19-21). “For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5).