We have to look at three other renderings of anomia. The word is translated as unrighteousness in 2 Cor. 6:14. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
In 1 John 3:4, the word is used twice in order to give us a very succinct definition of sin itself, and is rendered as transgression of the law. “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” Whoever commits sin practices or does lawlessness or unrighteousness. For sin is lawlessness.