World English Bible
1 John 3:4
“Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.”
Verse in context — 1 John 3
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.
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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.
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Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
About 1 John
Assurance of salvation and the call to love one another.
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