Can a believer abide in sin?

I found this quote this morning in a colleague's paper; good reminder:

“Whereas the sinner lives in sin and loves it, the saint lapses into sin and loathes it. He cannot, being a sheep, enjoy the filth which the hog rolls in.”[1]

1 John 3:9 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

[1] Douty, Union With Christ, 188.