Iniquity vs. Sin

Iniquitynoun

Deviation from what is right; wickedness, gross injustice.

Sinnoun

(theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.

‘As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.’;

Iniquitynoun

An unfair act or unconscionable deed.

Sinnoun

A misdeed.

Iniquitynoun

Hostility, malevolence, lawlessness.

Sinnoun

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

Iniquitynoun

Denial of the sovereignty of God.

Sinnoun

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

Iniquitynoun

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.’;

Sinnoun

A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ]]

Iniquitynoun

An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.

‘Your iniquities have separated between you and your God.’;

Sinnoun

A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

Iniquitynoun

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.’;

Sinnoun

A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.

Iniquitynoun

absence of moral or spiritual values;

‘the powers of darkness’;

Sinverb

To commit a sin.

Iniquitynoun

morally objectionable behavior

Sin

Old form of Since.

‘Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.’;

Iniquitynoun

an unjust act

Sinnoun

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.’;

Sinnoun

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

‘I grant that poetry's a crying sin.’;

Sinnoun

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

‘He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.’;

Sinnoun

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

‘Thy ambition,Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing landOf noble Buckingham.’;

Sinverb

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.’;

Sinverb

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.’;

Sinnoun

estrangement from god

Sinnoun

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

Sinnoun

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

Sinnoun

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

Sinnoun

the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Sinnoun

violent and excited activity;

‘they began to fight like sin’;

Sinverb

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

Sinverb

commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;

‘I blundered during the job interview’;

Sinnoun

an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law

‘the human capacity for sin’; ‘a sin in the eyes of God’;

Sinnoun

an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offence, or omission

‘he committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews’;

Sinverb

commit a sin

‘I sinned and brought shame down on us’;

Sinverb

offend against (God, a person, or a principle)

‘Lord, we have sinned against you’;

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.