Parallel Verses

Amplified

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness [ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing—being unrestrained by His commands and His will].

New American Standard Bible

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.

International Standard Version

Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.

A Conservative Version

Every man doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

American Standard Version

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

An Understandable Version

Every person who practices a life of sin is also breaking [God's] law, for sin is law-breaking.

Anderson New Testament

Every one that works sin, works also transgression of law: and sin is transgression of law.

Bible in Basic English

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

Common New Testament

Everyone who commits sin also commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Daniel Mace New Testament

he that is vitious, is lawless: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Darby Translation

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

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

Every one who works sin, works also the transgression of law; for sin is the transgression of law.

Godbey New Testament

Every one doing sin does also a transgression of the law: and sin is the transgression of the law.

Goodspeed New Testament

Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law.

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

Every one doing sin also does lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness.

King James 2000

Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Modern King James verseion

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

All that commit sin, committeth unrighteousness also, for sin is unrighteousness.

Moffatt New Testament

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

Montgomery New Testament

Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

NET Bible

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

New Heart English Bible

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Noyes New Testament

Whoever committeth sin transgresseth thereby the law; for sin is a transgression of the law.

Sawyer New Testament

Every one that commits sin commits also wickedness, and sin is wickedness.

The Emphasized Bible

Whosoever is committing sin, lawlessness also, is committing, and, sin, is, lawlessness;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Every one who committeth sin, committeth also a transgression of the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Every one who lives sinfully is living in violation of Law. Sin is violation of Law.

Webster

Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law.

Weymouth New Testament

Every one who is guilty of sin is also guilty of violating Law; for sin is the violation of Law.

Williams New Testament

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

World English Bible

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Worrell New Testament

Every one who commits sin commits lawlessness also; and sin is lawlessness.

Worsley New Testament

Every one that committeth sin, transgresseth the law; for sin is the violation of the law.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143
Usage: 143

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the law
ἀνομία 
Anomia 
Usage: 10

for

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

Images 1 John 3:4

Prayers for 1 John 3:4

Context Readings

Children Of God

3 And everyone who has this hope [confidently placed] in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure (holy, undefiled, guiltless). 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness [ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing—being unrestrained by His commands and His will]. 5 You know that He appeared [in visible form as a man] in order to take away sins; and in Him there is [absolutely] no sin [for He has neither the sin nature nor has He committed sin or acts worthy of blame].



Cross References

1 John 5:17

All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death [one can repent of it and be forgiven].

Romans 3:20

For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin].

Romans 4:15

For the Law results in [God’s] wrath [against sin], but where there is no law, there is no violation [of it either].

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality and decadence which they formerly practiced.

Numbers 15:31

Because he has despised and rejected the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; [the responsibility for] his wickedness and guilt will be upon him.’”

1 Samuel 15:24

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the command of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

1 Kings 8:47

if they take it to heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and they repent and pray to You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong and we have acted wickedly;’

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, for his failure to keep the word of the Lord; and also because he consulted a medium [regarding a spirit of the dead], to inquire of her,

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the Spirit of God came over Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God has said: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord so that you cannot prosper? Because you have abandoned (turned away from) the Lord, He has also abandoned (turned away from) you.’”

Isaiah 53:8


After oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation [His contemporaries], who [among them] concerned himself with the fact
That He was cut off from the land of the living [by His death]
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [of death] was due?

Daniel 9:11

Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even turning aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us and the oath which is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

Romans 7:7-13

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known [for example] about coveting [what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, “You shall not covet.”

James 2:9-11

But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

James 5:15

and the prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 John 3:8-9

The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

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