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NASB | 1 John 3:4 ¶ Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:4 ¶ Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness [ignoring God's law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing--being unrestrained by His commands and His will]. |
Bible Question:
Lawlessness is sin, that's true but are we to base sin just on the absence of right behavior or not abiding the law? Do we think if we can come up with a comprehensive enough sin list, and avoid all the items on the list, that the effort will make us sinless? |
Bible Answer: inheavenseyes, In Romans Paul uses the term "sin" in a variety of ways. There is the "behavioral" kind of sin of ommission or commission, but there is also the "sin that is in me," what in Catholic theology is called concupiscence or the tendency in man to gravitate toward sin and evil as a result of Adam's "original sin" which deprived man of his supernatural relationship with God. So in a sense to be "in sin" is to be without the grace or life of God in us. Emmaus |