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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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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

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

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West



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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