1 John 5:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Deuteronomy 12:32

You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

Deuteronomy 5:32

Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.

James 1:15

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

1 John 3:4

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

1 John 5:16

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.