Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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.

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 makes himself holy, even as he is holy. 4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law. 5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.



Cross References

1 John 5:17

All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

Numbers 15:31

Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.

1 Kings 8:47

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

1 Chronicles 10:13

So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.

Isaiah 53:8

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

Daniel 9:11

And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

Romans 7:7-13

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

James 2:9-11

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

James 5:15

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

1 John 3:8-9

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

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