1 John 5:17

World English Bible (2000)

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

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  • 1 John 3:4 : 4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
  • 1 John 5:16 : 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
  • Ezek 18:26-32 : 26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
  • Deut 12:32 : 32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • 1 John 2:1 : 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
  • Deut 5:32 : 32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • 1 John 5:15-16
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    15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

    16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

  • 1 John 3:4-10
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    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

    5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

    7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

    8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

  • 1 John 1:5-10
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    5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

    6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

    8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  • 1 John 5:18-19
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    18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

    19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

  • Rom 5:12-13
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    12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

    13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

  • Prov 8:36
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    36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • 1 John 3:14-15
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    14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

    15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

  • Lev 5:17
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    17 "If anyone sins, and does any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done; though he didn't know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

  • Ezek 18:20
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    20 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

  • Ezek 18:24
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    24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

  • John 16:9
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    9 about sin, because they don't believe in me;

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • Rom 5:21
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    21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Ps 1:5
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    5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

  • Prov 11:19
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    19 He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

  • John 3:20
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    20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

  • Matt 12:31
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    31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

  • Rom 1:32
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    32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Rom 3:10
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    10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

  • Rom 7:13
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    13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

  • Num 5:6
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    6 "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;

  • 1 Tim 5:24
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    24 Some men's sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.

  • Jas 5:20
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    20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

  • Lev 5:5
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    5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.