1 John 3:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

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  • 1 John 5:17 : 17 all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: 8 `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; 10 and the command that `is' for life, this was found by me for death; 11 for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me'; 12 so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. 13 That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
  • Num 15:31 : 31 because the word of Jehovah he despised, and His command hath broken -- that person is certainly cut off; his iniquity `is' on him.'
  • 1 Sam 15:24 : 24 And Saul saith unto Samuel, `I have sinned, for I passed over the command of Jehovah, and thy words; because I have feared the people, I also hearken to their voice;
  • 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely -- we have done wickedly;
  • 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit -- to inquire, --
  • 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 and the Spirit of God hath clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he standeth over-against the people, and saith to them, `Thus said God, Why are ye transgressing the commands of Jehovah, and prosper not? because ye have forsaken Jehovah -- He doth forsake you.'
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,
  • Dan 9:11 : 11 and all Israel have transgressed Thy law, to turn aside so as not to hearken to Thy voice; and poured on us is the execration, and the oath, that is written in the law of Moses, servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
  • Jas 2:9-9 : 9 and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; 10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all; 11 for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil; 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

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    5and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

    6every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

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    8he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

    9every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

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    17all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

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    9and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

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    17to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

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    34Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

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    15afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

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  • Lev 5:17
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    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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    23for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --

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    6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

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    15What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!