1 John 5:17
All unrighteousness is sin. And there is sin not toward death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that shall ye observe to do. Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.
Ezekiel 18:26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it, in his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.
James 1:15Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.
1 John 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:16If 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.
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 →