Parallel Verses

Moffatt New Testament

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

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.

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.

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 rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure. 4 Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness, 5 and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

Cross References

1 John 5:17

All iniquity is sin, but there are sins which are not deadly.

Romans 3:20

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

Romans 4:15

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

Romans 7:7-13

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

James 2:9-11

but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression.

James 5:15

the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; even the sins he has committed will be forgiven him.

1 John 3:8-9

he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

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