In order to avoid sin, it’s essential we know exactly what sin is. So how does the Bible define sin? The clearest definition of sin that we find in the Bible is 1 John 3:4: “Sin is the transgression of the law
Paul that sin is a transgression of the law (Rom., ii, 23; v, 12-20); a servitude from which we are liberated by grace (Rom., vi, 16-18); a disobedience (Heb., ii, 2) punished by God (Heb., x, 26-31). St. John describes sin as an offense to God, a disorder of the...
Their perdition, if it ensues, will not be due to transgression of a code they had not, but to sin against such light as they had; if without knowledge of Law they sinned, without reference to Law their doom will he, And as many as have sinned in Law (or, under Law. Ἐν ν...
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them who had not sinned in the manner of the transgression of the law by Adam, who is the likeness of him that was to come.Aramaic Bible in Plain EnglishBut death reigned from Adam and until Moses, even over those who had not...
Sin is the transgression of the law. Of course, it's talking of the law, of talking about the law of God. Sin is the transgression of God's law. Different churches seem to have different definitions of what is sin. I remember when I was a boy, I was raised in a very respectable...
Throughout the Old and New Testaments, sin means deviating from obedience to God’s character and will. In the Bible, sin is described as a transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7;Joshua 1:18). ...
throughJesusChrist,thesinnermay beabsolvedofhistransgressions. HowDoesGodJustifyMan? •InconsideringJustification: –Godisthejudge. –HisWordisthelaw. –OurSinisthetransgressionofthatlaw. •Intheory,Godmayjustifyin2ways: –Becauseheisinnocent. ...
but he expressly affirms the contrary in the fourteenth verse: “But death reigned”, not only over those who imitated Adam, but “even over them also who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam.” Adam‘s sin, therefore, is the sole cause of death for the en...
To uphold the view of the majority, R. Ammi quoted the Scripture to show that sin causes pain and death: "I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes" (Ps. xxxix. 33); "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezek. xviii. 4). This verse is in ...
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[g]9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death,though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the...