Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

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.

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 based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure. 4 Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience. 5 You know that the Messiah was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him.



Cross References

1 John 5:17

Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that do not lead to death.

Romans 3:20

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come my God may again humble me before you and that I may have to grieve over many who formerly lived in sin and have not repented of their impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity that they once practiced.

Numbers 15:31

Because he has despised the law of the LORD and has broken his commands, that person is certainly to be eliminated. His iniquity will remain on him."

1 Samuel 15:24

"I've sinned," Saul replied to Samuel. "I've broken the LORD's command and your word, because I was afraid of the people and listened to them.

1 Kings 8:47

if they turn their hearts back to you in the land where they have been taken captive, repent, and pray to you even if they do so in the land of their captivity confessing, "We have sinned, we have committed abominations, and practiced wickedness,'

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died for his transgressions; that is, he acted unfaithfully to the LORD by transgressing the message from the LORD (which he did not keep), by consulting a medium for advice,

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then Jehoiada the priest's son Zechariah was clothed by the Spirit of God, and he stood above the people and told them, "This is what God has to say: "Why are you breaking the LORD's commandments. You'll never be successful! Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.'"

Isaiah 53:8

"From detention and judgment he was taken away and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people.

Daniel 9:11

And all Israel flouted your Law, turning aside from it and not obeying your voice. Because we've sinned against him, the curse has been poured upon us, along with the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God.

Romans 7:7-13

What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

James 2:9-11

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators.

James 5:15

And the prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick. The Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.

1 John 3:8-9

The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.

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