1 John 5:16
If any man may see his brother sinning a sin not toward death, he will ask, and he will give life to him, to those not sinning toward death. There is sin toward death. I do not say that he should make request about that.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17All unrighteousness is sin. And there is sin not toward death.
Cross References
Genesis 20:17And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.
Exodus 32:31And Moses returned to LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made gods of gold for them.
Numbers 12:13And Moses cried to LORD, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.
Numbers 15:30But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles 30:18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pa
Matthew Henry on 1 John 5:15-18
The Sin unto Death. ( a. d. 80.) 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin… Read the whole commentary →