1 John 3:4
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
In Context
3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:24Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1 Chronicles 10:13So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
Isaiah 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Romans 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
James 2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:2-4
Adoption. ( a. d. 80.) 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. The apostle, having shown the dignity of Christ's faithful followers,… Read the whole commentary →