1 John 3:4

Good News Translation

Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:47

listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord. He disobeyed the Lord's commands; he tried to find guidance by consulting the spirits of the dead

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood where the people could see him and called out, “The Lord God asks why you have disobeyed his commands and are bringing disaster on yourselves! You abandoned him, so he has abandoned you!”

Isaiah 53:8

He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of our people.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.

Numbers 15:31

because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.

Matthew 5:19

So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven.

Acts 23:3

Paul said to him, “God will certainly strike you—you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the Law, yet you break the Law by ordering them to strike me!”

Romans 3:20

For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.

Romans 4:15

The Law brings down God's anger; but where there is no law, there is no disobeying of the law.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the immoral things they have done—their lust and their sexual sins.

James 5:15

This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.

1 John 5:17

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which does not lead to death.

1 Samuel 15:24

“Yes, I have sinned,” Saul replied. “I disobeyed the Lord's command and your instructions. I was afraid of my men and did what they wanted.