1 John 5:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

1 John 5:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 4:7-10
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. …
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. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-17)

Here we have, I. A privilege belonging to faith in Christ, namely, audience in prayer: This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us, 1 John 5:14. The Lord Christ emboldens us to come to God in all circumstances, with all our supplications and requests. Through him our petitions are admitted and accepted of God. The matter of our prayer…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. “Every unrighteousness (even that of believers, compare 1Jo 1:9; 3:4. 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, deat…