Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 John 3:4
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4. Sin is incompatible with birth from God ( 1 John 3:1-3 ). John often sets forth the same truth negatively, which he had before set forth positively. He had shown, birth from God involves self-purification; he now shows where sin, that is, the want of self-purification, is, there is no birth from God. Whosoever — Greek, "Every one who." committeth sin —in contrast to 1 John 3:3 , "Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself"; and 1 John 3:3- : , "He that doeth righteousness." transgresseth . . . the law — Greek, "committeth transgression of law." God's law of purity; and so shows he has no such hope of being hereafter pure as God is pure, and, therefore, that he is not born of God. for — Greek, "and." sin is . . . transgression of . . . law —definition of sin in general. The Greek having the article to both, implies that they are convertible terms. The Greek "sin" ( hamartia ) is literally, "a missing of the mark." God's will being that mark to be ever aimed at. "By the law is the knowledge of sin." The crookedness of a line is shown by being brought into juxtaposition with a straight ruler. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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