1 John 3:4
2 Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
5 But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
6 No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
- KJV
- Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
- WEB
- Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
- ASV
- Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
- DARBY
- Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
- BLB
- Everyone who [is] doing sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
- ÅB
- Hver den som gjør synd, han gjør og lovbrudd, og synden er lovbrudd.
- OTB
- Hver den som begår synd, begår også lovløshet; og synd er lovløshet.
- B1930
- Hver den som gjør synd, han gjør og lovbrudd, og synden er lovbrudd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 5:17
All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.
Read in contextRomans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Read in contextRomans 4:15
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Read in contextNumbers 15:31
He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Read in context1 John 3:8–9
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:21
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Read in contextJames 2:9–11
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Read in contextRomans 7:7–13
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Read in context