1 John 5:17
Kol avon is chet, and there is chet not leading to mavet.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:26When a tzaddik turneth away from his tzedek, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them, for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
James 1:15Then after her conception Ta'avah gives birth to Averah (Transgression) and Averah, once she has fully developed, gives birth to Mavet. + 1:15 Gn 3:6; Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 59:4
1 John 2:1My yeladim, these things I write to you so that you do not commit averos. And if anyone does commit averos, a Melitz Yosher (Advocate) we have with HaAv, Yehoshua/Yeshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach the Tzaddik.
1 John 5:16If anyone sees his Ach b'Moshiach sinning an averah not leading to mavet, he will ask and Hashem will give to him Chayyim, to the ones sinning a chet not leading to mavet. There is an averah leading to mavet. I do not say we should make request concerning that averah.
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 →