1 John 3:9 Does this mean I must be sin free?

Mercy Shown said:

1 John 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

John is not saying that believers achieve sinless perfection by sheer willpower, nor is he describing a merely psychological decision to avoid sin so as not to “reject” God’s seed. Rather, he is describing a change of spiritual nature that results in a changed pattern of life.

To be “born of God” means that God’s own life—his seed—now abides in the believer, and that indwelling life actively opposes sin. Because the Son of God has appeared to destroy the devil’s work, sin can no longer remain the believer’s settled allegiance or habitual practice.

The believer may still sin, as John has already acknowledged earlier in the letter, but they cannot continue in sin as a defining way of life, because the divine life within them is at work reshaping their desires, loyalties, and direction over time.

Obedience, then, is not primarily the effort to protect the seed from being lost; it is the evidence that the seed is alive and bearing fruit. Persistent, unrepentant sin would signal not a temporary failure of effort, but the absence of this new birth itself.

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1 John 3:9 speaks of the true righteousness and holiness of the spiritual creature God created when He gave birth to it by His Spirit. This new creature is without sin and cannot be corrupted by sin (1 Jn 5:18) by virtue of it's divine nature that it inherited directly from God.

When a person is born the second time, he receives a spiritual nature as you said above. This new spiritual nature joins him with the Lord and makes him one spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17). As a result, even though that person has never seen Jesus with his eyes, he loves Him with joy that is inexpressible and full of glory (1 Pet 1:8). Other things are true for that person as well. Not only does he love God, he loves the people of God, the things of God and hates sin.

The newness of life that we have in Christ Jesus is contrasted with the corruption of the flesh that brings on death. In this life, we contend with our corrupt human nature on one hand and enjoy our truly righteous and holy divine nature on the other. To live successful Christian lives, we learn to walk in the newness of life in lock step with the Spirit, denying the flesh what it wants, and reaping the fruits of the Spirit instead of the fruits of the flesh. To the extent that we are unsuccesful, we stand forgiven, God corrects us, and we continue. One day we will be free of the body of sin that we drag around with us and we will see Him as He is. In the meantime, we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit because Christ lives in us (Rom 8:9).

Yes we need to be sin free, the bible really say that,
but that doesn't mean being free of all mistakes and sins, because that is not possible.
by those sins i mean the ones that doesn't affect too much our relationship with God.
But the bible just says "Don't be deceived, those who do this and that are not going to inherit the kingdom of God"
Those serious sins we need to cut with urgency.