1 John 5:17
Every time somebody does a bad thing, they are going against God. But not all those bad things make a person die for ever.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
In Context
Cross References
1 John 2:1Listen, my Christian friends. I am like your father, and you are like my kids. I am writing these things to you because I want you to live the right way, and I don’t want you to do anything bad at all. But if any Christian does do something bad, then God our father will not get angry and punish them. You see, Jesus Christ died for us. He never did anything bad at all, but he died to take away all the bad things that we did. He is with God now, and he asks God to help us. So now God will say that we are not guilty. And you know, Jesus didn’t only die for us mob. He died for everybody in the world.
1 John 5:16If you see another Christian doing the wrong thing, you have to pray for them, and then God will give them life. You know, some people do things that stop them being joined up with God. One day, those people will die for ever. I’m not saying you have to pray for those people. But you have to pray for Christians that do other bad things.
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 →