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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