1 John 3:4 “Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin…”

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

World English Bible

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

American Standard Version

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Geneva Bible 1599

Whosoeuer committeth sinne, transgresseth also the Law: for sinne is the transgression of the Lawe.

Darby Translation

Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“committeth”

2 Corinthians 12:21 1 Chronicles 10:13 James 5:15 1 Kings 8:47 1 John 3:8 1 John 3:9

2 Corinthians 12:21 · BSB

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

1 Chronicles 10:13 · BSB

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,

James 5:15 · BSB

And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

1 Kings 8:47 · BSB

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

1 John 3:8 · BSB

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:9 · BSB

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

“transgresseth”

Romans 3:20 Romans 4:15 Numbers 15:31 Daniel 9:11 James 2:9–11 1 Samuel 15:24

Romans 3:20 · BSB

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 4:15 · BSB

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Numbers 15:31 · BSB

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

Daniel 9:11 · BSB

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

James 2:9–11 · BSB

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

1 Samuel 15:24 · BSB

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

“for”

1 John 5:17 Romans 7:7–13

1 John 5:17 · BSB

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

Romans 7:7–13 · BSB

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

Read 1 John 3