Word Finder - sinners

definition

A person who sins or has sinned.

synonyms

• criminal
• evildoer
• offender

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A person who sins or has sinned by the action or identity indicated or previously mentioned

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An unregenerate person.

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(figuratively, by extension) A person with negative qualities; one who does bad things.

example

Are you a sinner or a saint?

We're probably all a little hypocritical at times - and we're all sinners, so I hear.

And the old man said, 'God will forgive you, we are all sinners in His sight.

He can just change the title from Saint among the Sinners to Sinner among the Saints, The Life and Times of a Mine-Town Hooker.

The 6th council of Toledo (in 693) has been cited as if it visited certain very great sinners with scourging as an ecclesiastical punishment.

As one of those who fear the Lord in truth and in patience, he looks forward to the punishment of all sinners who oppress the righteous and profane the sanctuary.

Yahweh appears to plead with His people for their sins, but the sinners are no longer a careless and oppressive aristocracy buoyed up by deceptive assurances of Yahweh's help, by prophecies of wine and strong drink; they are bowed down by a religion of terror, wearied with attempts to propitiate an angry God by countless offerings, and even by the sacrifice of the first-born.

His system declared that holiness and sin are free voluntary exercises; that men act freely under the divine agency; that the slightest transgression deserves eternal punishment; that it is through God's mere grace that the penitent believer is pardoned and justified; that, in spite of total depravity, sinners ought to repent; and that regeneration is active, not passive, with the believer.

James assigns to the 10th or rlth century, deals with the subject of intercession for sinners and Sedrach's unwillingness to die.

Impious sinners, or enemies of the community and its god, might be devoted to utter destruction.

Jesus, they say, was sent to save sinners; was he not sent to help those who have kept themselves free from sin?

In some cases there is no suggestion of any forgiveness; sinners are " cut off " from the chosen people; individuals and nations perish in their iniquity.

Christ suffering on behalf of sinners satisfies the divine righteousness, which was outraged by their sin.'3 His work is an expression of God's love to man; 14 the redeeming power of Christ's death is also explained by his solidarity with humanity as the second Adam," - the redeemed sinner has " died with Christ."

And for our sins sinners (the Hasmonaeans) have risen up over us, taking with force the kingdom which Thou didst not promise to them, profaning the throne of David in their pride.

This is known as the Commination service, its distinctive element being the solemn reading of "the general sentences of God's cursing against sinners, gathered out of the seven and twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture."

Then He complained of the unreasonableness of an age which refused John as too austere and Himself as too lax and as being " the friend of publicans and sinners."

As to individuals within the nation, the despised publicans and sinners will find God's favour before the self-satisfied representatives of the national religion.

It was thought only right that there should be some uniformity in dealing with repentant sinners, and books appeared giving lists of sins and what were supposed to be suitable satisfactions.

Hence it is that even the holy Ganges resorts underground once in the year to the source of the Cauvery, to purge herself from the pollution contracted from the crowd of sinners who have bathed in her waters.

It was not the Old Testament saints, however, but only sinners and malefactors like Cain, Esau and Saul, who obeyed his summons.

A year later he published Discourses on Various Important Subjects, the five sermons which had proved most effective in the revival, and of these none, he tells us, was so immediately effective as that on the Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners, from the text, " That every mouth may be stopped."

The particular reason for this seems to lie in a single sermon preached at Enfield, Connecticut, in July 1741 from the text, " Their foot shall slide in due time," and commonly known from its title, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

His place in the Edwardean theology is principally due to his defence against the Universalists of his father's doctrine of the atonement, namely, that Christ's death, being the equivalent of the eternal punishment of sinners, upheld the authority of the divine law, but did not pay any debt, and made the pardon of all men a possibility with God, but not a necessity.

Bids them not to swear at all nor to expect any intercession of the departed saints for sinners.

Prison life gave him leisure to write, and during his first imprisonment he wrote, in addition to several tracts and some verse, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, the narrative of his own religious experience.

Public but general confession of sins and intercession for penitent sinners have from early times formed a normal part of public worship in the Christian church.

Again, Western theology, very roughly summarized, while accepting the earlier doctrinal tradition, has broken new ground for itself, in affirming as rational necessity that God must punish sin (this is at least latent in Aquinas's - doctrine of natural law), but as contingent fact of revelation that God has in Christ combined the punishment of sin with the salvation of sinners; this is the Reformation or postReformation thought.

Some of the lesser sinners were forced to restitution, and in 1618 Lerma fell from power, but only because he was supplanted by his son, the duke of Uceda, a man as worthless as himself.

Jansen's thoughts went back every moment to his two spiritual heroes, St Augustine and St Paul, each of whom had been "the chief of sinners."

Even the worst of sinners are not amoral animals and perfectly sane people can be extremely wicked.

They considered all sinners apostates, as well as all those who opposed them.

Just as Christ does not disassociate Himself from a sinner like me, so we ought not to disassociate ourselves from our fellow sinners.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

The " many " are condemned sinners awaiting execution.

Grace is free unmerited favor for sinners giving them full forgiveness in Jesus Christ forever.

Hear that, ye great sinners, and ye saints who need great forbearance.

We're both sinners forgiven through the death of Jesus.

Will the ultimate plan of the Master of the Sinners reach fruition?

Do thou now intercede with Christ our God for us sinners who honor thee.

Wherefore, be thou ever merciful unto us sinners.

Instead, the elect were a people in covenant with God, a scattered remnant of the faithful, separated from the sinners.

First the dead have to wait in another land until the funerary ritual is over and to be punished if they are sinners.

God does not try to save sinners or hope they will be saved.

In the past leprosy was said to be sent by the ancestors to punish either individual sinners or members of a sinner's family.

Their whole purpose in life seems to have been to prepare for God's holy war against the gentiles and unrepentant sinners.

He's been faithful to countless undeserving sinners before you.

I found my brother in the marketplace, calling lost sinners to Him that justifieth the ungodly.

We are to live so that that teaching which says God saves sinners from their sin is made visibly verifiable by our lives.

An appeal to perishing sinners to trust in Christ is like calling on a drowning wretch to climb the embankment wall.

The Jews say, ` Come to us ye who are sinners, ye who are fools or children, ye who are miserable, and ye shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven.'

He saw in Christ the divine Spirit, who had come down from heaven to transform the lives of men, all of whom are sinners.