1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

In Context

16If 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.

18We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:32Whatsoever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Ezekiel 18:26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

James 1:15Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

1 John 2:1My little children, these things write I unto you, that all of you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 John 5:16If 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.

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 →

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