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

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

    7 Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

    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.

    10 In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

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

    18 We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

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    6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

    7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

    8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

    9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

    10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • Jas 2:9-11
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    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;

  • 3 and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

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

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

  • 1 John 2:1-2
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    1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

    2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

  • 15 for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

  • 12 for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

  • 20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    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.

  • John 3:20-21
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    20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

    21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

  • 9 every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

  • Rom 5:12-13
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    12 because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

    13 for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

  • 21 for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

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

  • 29 if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

  • 1 Tim 1:9-10
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    9 having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

    10 whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

  • 17 `And when any person sinneth, and hath done `something against' one of all the commands of Jehovah `regarding things' which are not to be done, and hath not known, and he hath been guilty, and hath borne his iniquity,

  • 18 flee 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.

  • 9 What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

  • 3 or hath found a lost thing, and hath lied concerning it, and hath sworn to a falsehood, concerning one of all `these' which man doth, sinning in them:

  • 6 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, Man or woman, when they do any of the sins of man, by committing a trespass against Jehovah, and that person `is' guilty,

  • 17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

  • 20 And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

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

  • 3 for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

  • 14 for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

  • 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

  • 2 and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

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

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