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Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
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Sin is Lawlessness
Multiple commentators, including Charles Spurgeon, call this verse the 'best definition of sin.' It defines sin not just as a mistake, but as 'lawlessness' (Greek: anomia). This means any sin is an act of rebellion against God's divine law and authority. It is a rejection of His right to rule, making it a profoundly serious matter.
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1 John
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law (1 John 3:4). This refers to the law of God given to humanity as a rule of…
Sin is lawlessness (η αμαρτια εστιν η ανομια). The article with both subject and predicate makes them coextensive and so interchan…
19th Century
Anglican
The consequence of the divine birth on human conduct (1 John 3:4–10).—This paragraph is an expansion of the thought of [Reference 1 Joh…
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Baptist
Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
And there will never be a better defini…
Here John uses two words to describe sin: “sin” (GK 281) and “lawlessness” (GK 490). In both OT and NT, these two words are used frequently as syno…
16th Century
Protestant
Whosoever committeth, or doeth, sin. The Apostle has already shown how ungrateful we must be to God if we make little account of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whosoever committeth sin This, in connection with what follows, is true of any sin, great or small, but here designs…
The sons of God know that their Lord is of purer eyes than to allow anything unholy and impure to dwell with Him. It is the hope of hypocrites, not…
