1 John 3:4
Good News Translation
Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law.

New Revised Standard Version
Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law.

New American Bible
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is iniquity.

committeth.

1 John 3:8,9 He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. . . .

1 Kings 8:47 Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and being converted, make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch,

2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

transgresseth.

Numbers 15:31 For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.

2 Chronicles 24:20 The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.

Daniel 9:11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15 For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

James 2:9-11 But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors. . . .

for.

1 John 5:17 All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

Romans 7:7-13 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

Context
Children of God
3And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. 4Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is iniquity. 5And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:19
He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. For, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the law, commandest me to be struck?

Romans 4:15
For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

1 John 5:17
All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

1 John 3:3
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