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The word is ἄνομος, and is translated 'without law' in 1 Cor. 9: 21; it is applied to those who, regardless of all law, do their own will. Acts 2: 23; 2 Thess. 2: 8; 1 Tim. 1: 9; 2 Peter 2: 8. It is wrongly translated 'transgressor' in the A.V. of Mark 15: 28 and Luke 22: 37. A kindred word is translated 'transgression of the law' in 1 John 3: 4, which as a definition of sin is a serious error: it should be 'sin is lawlessness,' and this term is equally applicable to those who never had the law.