NEW TESTAMENT

1 John 5:17

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17

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

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Verse 17. All iniquity [4] is sin. The sense here is, that sin is always an injury or an injustice done to God; but though every sin implies such an injury and an offence against God, yet there are different degrees in such injuries, which are not always such an injustice as Saint John calls the sin unto death. Witham.

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