4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)The apostle, having alleged the believer’s obligation to purity from his hope of heaven, and of communion with Christ in glory at the day of his appearance, now proceeds to fill his own mouth and the believer’s mind with multiplied arguments against sin, and all communion with the impure unfruitful works of darkness. And so he reasons and argues, I. From the nature of sin and the intrinsic evil of…
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