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Iniquity vs. Sin — What's the Difference?

Iniquity vs. Sin — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Iniquity and Sin

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Iniquity

Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.

Sin

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin.

Iniquity

A grossly immoral act; a sin.

Sin

An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law
The human capacity for sin
A sin in the eyes of God

Iniquity

(uncountable) Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.
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Sin

Commit a sin
I sinned and brought shame down on us

Iniquity

(countable) An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.

Sin

A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.

Iniquity

Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
Till the world from his perfection fellInto all filth and foul iniquity.

Sin

Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.

Iniquity

An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God.

Sin

A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.

Iniquity

A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
Acts old Iniquity, and in the fitOf miming gets the opinion of a wit.

Sin

Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong.

Iniquity

Absence of moral or spiritual values;
The powers of darkness

Sin

One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter shin by having a dot above the left side of the letter. See Table at alphabet.

Iniquity

Morally objectionable behavior

Sin

The Babylonian god of the moon.

Iniquity

An unjust act

Sin

To violate a religious or moral law.

Sin

(theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.

Sin

Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.

Sin

A misdeed or wrong.

Sin

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

Sin

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

Sin

A flaw or mistake.
No movie is without sin.

Sin

A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ]]

Sin

A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

Sin

To commit a sin.

Sin

Old form of Since.
Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.

Sin

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.
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Sin is the transgression of the law.
I think 't no sin.To cozen him that would unjustly win.
EnthralledBy sin to foul, exorbitant desires.

Sin

An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
I grant that poetry's a crying sin.

Sin

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.

Sin

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
Thy ambition,Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing landOf noble Buckingham.

Sin

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.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned.
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Sin

To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
I am a manMore sinned against than sinning.
Who but wishes to invert the lawsOf order, sins against the eternal cause.

Sin

Estrangement from god

Sin

An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

Sin

Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Sin

(Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

Sin

The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Sin

Violent and excited activity;
They began to fight like sin

Sin

Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

Sin

Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;
I blundered during the job interview

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