Πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ τὴν ἀνομίαν ποιε (I John 3:4)

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Title:  Everyone Practicing Sin Also Practices Lawlessness, and Sin is Lawlessness

The text is, “Πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ τὴν ἀνομίαν ποιεῖ καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐστὶν ἡ ἀνομία”.

Πᾶς -> masculine, singular, nominative adjective -> everyone

ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> the NRIEH**

ποιῶν -> present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -> practicing

τὴν -> feminine, singular, accusative article -> the NRIEH

ἁμαρτίαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> sin

καὶ -> adverb -> also

τὴν -> feminine, singular, accusative article -> the NRIEH

ἀνομίαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> lawlessness

ποιεῖ -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> practices

καὶ -> coordinating additive conjunction -> and

ἡ -> feminine, singular, nominative article -> the NRIEH

ἁμαρτία -> feminine, singular, nominative noun -> sin

ἐστὶν -> third person, singular, present, indicative verb -> is

ἡ -> feminine, singular, nominative article -> the NRIEH

ἀνομία -> feminine, singular, nominative noun -> lawlessness

The meaning of this verse is,

Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.”

**NRIEH:  For the sake of clarity the word is translated into English, but to avoid such odd constructions as applying a definite article (“the”) to a substantive sufficiently determined by its being a proper noun, or by the use of a qualifier other than the definite article. An example would be the basic translation “Peter said to the Jesus”; the word “the” is completely unnecessary. There are many examples of this in the New Testament. The designation NRIEH is equivalent to “Not Rendered Into English Here”.

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