1 John 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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.

1 John 3:4

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