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1 John 3:4

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: jfor sin is the transgression of the law.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ τὴν ἀνομίαν ποιεῖ· καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐστὶν ἡ ἀνομία.

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Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

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Which is added, to signify nothing can be more unreasonable, than the expectation of partaking with God in the glory and blessedness of the future state, if we now allow ourselves in a course of sin, or of transgressing his holy law, which is the very notion of sin; and is again further enforced from the design of our Redeemer.