1 John 5:17 KJV — MannaFest

1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

KJV

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ASV

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

WEB

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

YLT

all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

DBT

Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

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1 John — The aged apostle writes to churches in Asia Minor facing docetic teachers who deny the incarnation. Three tests interweave through five short chapters: walk in the light, love the brethren, confess Jesus come in the flesh.

Author: The apostle John — same author as the Gospel of John and 2/3 John; early church unanimous
Date: Late 1st century, c. AD 85–95, likely written from Ephesus

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10 verses on the floor

1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Ezekiel 18:26–32
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
James 4:7–10
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, John i. Thirdly, In raising him from the dead. 19 , Destroy this temple, and in three days will I raise it up. [3.] The third witness is the Holy Ghost, or the Holy Spirit, and august, venerable name, the possessor, proprietor, and author of holiness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All sin, as to the merit and legal sentence of it, is unto death. The wages of sin is death; and cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them, Gal. iii. But there is a sin unto death in opposition to such sin as is here said not to be unto death.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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