1 John 5:16

God's Word

If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don’t lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I’m not telling you to pray about that.

Cross References

Genesis 20:17

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could have children.

Genesis 20:7

Give the man’s wife back to him now, because he’s a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you don’t give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.”

Psalm 106:23

God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “Lord, please go with us! Even though we are impossible to deal with, forgive our sin and the wrong we have done, and accept us as your own people.”

Jeremiah 11:14

Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry or pray for them. I won’t listen when they call to me for help in times of trouble.

Jeremiah 14:11

The Lord said to me, “Don’t pray for the good of these people.

Jeremiah 7:16

“Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry or pray for them. Don’t plead with me, because I will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 22:30

“ ‘I looked for someone among you who could build walls or stand in front of me by the gaps in the walls to defend the land and keep it from being destroyed. But I couldn’t find anyone.

Numbers 12:13

So Moses cried to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!”

Numbers 15:30

“But any native-born Israelite or foreigner who deliberately does something wrong insults the Lord and must be excluded from the people.

Luke 12:10

Everyone who says something against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But the person who dishonors the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

John 17:9

“I pray for them. I’m not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

1 John 5:17

Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for us so that we will not die. We have added ⌞another⌟ evil thing to all our other sins by asking for a king.”

1 Samuel 2:25

If one person sins against another, God will take care of him. However, when a person sins against the Lord, who will pray for him?” But they wouldn’t listen to their father’s warning—the Lord wanted to kill them.