Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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.

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].

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 in Him purifies himself just as He is pure. 4 Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law. 5 You know that He was revealed so that He might take away sins, and there is no sin in Him.



Cross References

1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that does not bring death.

Romans 3:20

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

Romans 4:15

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

Numbers 15:31

He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the Lord’s word and broken His command; his guilt remains on him.”

1 Samuel 15:24

Saul answered Samuel, “I have sinned. I have transgressed the Lord’s command and your words. Because I was afraid of the people, I obeyed them.

1 Kings 8:47

and when they come to their senses
in the land where they were deported
and repent and petition You in their captors’ land:
“We have sinned and done wrong;
we have been wicked,”

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word. He even consulted a medium for guidance,

2 Chronicles 24:20

The Spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands and you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, He has abandoned you.’”

Isaiah 53:8

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment;
and who considered His fate?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has broken Your law and turned away, refusing to obey You. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.

Romans 7:7-13

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

James 2:9-11

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

James 5:15

The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 John 3:8-9

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

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