4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.


In Context

1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

1 John 3:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Whosoever committeth sin commmitteth also iniquity; and sin is iniquity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness: and sin is lawlessness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4Whoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.