New English Translation
1 John 5:17
17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.
1 John 5:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
- New International Version (NIV)All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
- New King James Version (NKJV)All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
Context of 1 John 5:17
15And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him. 16If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that. All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death. 18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him. 19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Read all of 1 John 51 John 5:17 word by word
πᾶσα ἀδικία ἁμαρτία ἐστίν, καὶ ἔστιν ἁμαρτία οὐ πρὸς θάνατον.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 John 5:17
- 1 John 3:4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
- Deuteronomy 5:32Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!
- Deuteronomy 12:32(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!
- 1 John 5:16If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.
- Isaiah 1:18Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
- Ezekiel 18:26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
- Romans 5:20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
- James 1:15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
- James 4:7So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Commentaries on 1 John 5:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17All unrighteousness is sin - , Every act contrary to justice is sin - is a transgression of the law which condemns all injustice.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17All unrighteousness is sin - This seems to be thrown in to guard what he had just said, and there is “one” great and enormous sin, a sin which could not be forgiven. But he says also that there are many other forms and degrees of sin, sin for which prayer may be made. Everything, he says, which is unrighteous - ̓́ adikia- everything which does not conform to the holy law of God, and which is not right in the view of that law, is to be regarded as sin…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-17Verses 13-17 Upon all this evidence, it is but right that we believe on the name of the Son of God. Believers have eternal life in the covenant of the gospel. Then let us thankfully receive the record of Scripture. Always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. The Lord Christ invites us to come to him in all circumstances, with our supplications and requests, notwithstanding the sin that besets us. Our…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17there is sin that does not lead to death: Sins that do not involve complete rejection of faith can lead to repentance and restoration (see James 5:20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. "Every unrighteousness (even that of believers, compare 1Jo 1:9; 3:4. Every coming short of right) is sin"; (but) not every sin is the sin unto death. and there is a sin not unto death--in the case of which, therefore, believers may intercede. Death and life stand in correlative opposition (1Jo 5:11-13). The sin unto death must be one tending "towards" (so the Greek), and so resulting in, death. Alford makes it to be an appreciable ACT of sin, namely…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 John 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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