All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
Parallel translations
- KJV All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
- BSB All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.
- NKJV All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
- NASB All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
- NLT All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death.
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- 1 Jn 3:4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
- Jas 1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
- 1 Jn 5:16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
- Jas 4:7–10Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ezek 18:26–32When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
- Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
- Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Deut 5:32You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
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