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Definition of Sin
Sin

Old form of Since.

Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.

To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

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Sin Quotations

I know what sin is.
Brigitte Bardot

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
Rocco Buttiglione

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sin Translations

sin in Afrikaans is oortree, oortreding, sonde
sin in Danish is synde
sin in Dutch is zondigen
sin in Finnish is synti
sin in Italian is peccato
sin in Latin is peccamen, pecco, nefas, peccatus, scelus sceleris
sin in Spanish is pecado, pecar
sin in Swedish is synd, synda


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