1 John 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

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  • 1 John 5:17 : 17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law. 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good. 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
  • Num 15:31 : 31 Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.
  • 1 Sam 15:24 : 24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
  • 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,
  • 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
  • Dan 9:11 : 11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.
  • Jas 2:9-9 : 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One. 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

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    5And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

    6Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

    7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

    8The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

    9Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

    10In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

  • 1 John 5:17-18
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    17All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

    18We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

  • 1 John 1:6-10
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    6If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

    7But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

    9If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

    10If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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    9But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

    10For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

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    3And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

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    17The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • John 8:34
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    34And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

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    1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

    2He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

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    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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    8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

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    21But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

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    9Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

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    12For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

    13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

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    21For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

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    29If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

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    9With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

    10For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • Lev 5:17
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    17And if anyone does wrong, and does any of the things which the Lord has given orders are not to be done, though he has no knowledge of it, still he is in the wrong and he is responsible.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

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    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

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    3And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.

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    6Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

  • Rom 7:17
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    17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

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    20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

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    23For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

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    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

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    4The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

  • Rom 2:2
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    2And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

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    6He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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    15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.