1 John 5:17
All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
Ezekiel 18:26When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.
James 1:15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
1 John 5:16If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
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 →