⁴ Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

²¹ that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

¹⁵ For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

²⁰ Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

⁸ But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁹ I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰ The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

¹¹ for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

¹² Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

¹³ Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

³¹ Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.

⁸ He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹ Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

⁹ But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

¹¹ For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

¹¹ Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.

⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?

²⁰ The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why disobey you the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.

¹³ So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby],

⁴⁷ yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

²⁴ Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.