Word Finder - sins

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A violation of God's will or religious law.

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

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A misdeed.

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A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

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An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

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A flaw.

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No movie is without sin.

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To commit a sin.

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A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ

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A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

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

Take off the rose colored glasses—'my sins will continue'—or better yet, wait until you decipher a few more pages and she gives it to you in black and white, chapter and verse and supplies the sinful details.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

It plagues my mind that my sins will continue but so in love am I that aught else matters.

The sins of Tantalus were visited upon his descendants, the Pelopidae.

More important, though, was the fact that he believed the child should not suffer for the sins of the parent.

While they didn't detail their crimes, both spoke of ruining their lives because of sins of the flesh.

The aim of the work is to show, on Scriptural grounds, that sins of professing Christians are to be punished by civil authority, and not by withholding of sacraments on the part of the clergy.

I'm not sure which of my sins she considers worst - being a Medena offspring or refusing my heritage.

These include the prohibition of alcoholic drink, of fleshly sins and of marriage, and the inculcation of faith in the Holy Ghost and complete surrender to his influence.

Two goats were provided by the ancient Hebrews on the Day of Atonement; the high priest sent one into the desert, after confessing on it the sins of Israel; it was not permitted to run free but was probably cast over a precipice; the other was sacrificed as a sin-offering.

The victim was often kept in captivity and well fed; to transfer their sins people laid their hands upon him as he was led in procession, his head covered with ashes; on the way to the place of sacrifice were three enclosures, the second open to chiefs and priest only, the third to the officiant and his helper alone; the blood of the victim was offered to the gods.

The animals were decorated with wampum and strangled, and then the sins of the people were transferred to them; then the remains were burned and the ashes gathered up, taken through the village and sprinkled before every house.

Valdemar cheerfully undertook a new crusade "for the honour of the Blessed Virgin and the remission of my own sins."

But Ezekiel expressed the strong reaction which had set in against this belief in its older forms. He denies that the individual ever dies for the sins of the father.

The goat set apart for Azazel was in the concluding part of the ceremonial brought before the high priest, who laid both his hands upon it and confessed over it the sins of the people.

These were usually regarded as visitations of chastisement for national sins and vindications of divine righteousness or judgments, i.e.

For the sins of the rulers God had rejected his people; but the remnant could not but inherit the promises, which belong to the chosen people.

The Pharisees, who regarded his rule as an inevitable penalty for the sins of the people, he encouraged.

In other cases it is believed that evil spirits generally or even non-personal evils such as sins are believed to be expelled.

The knight who joined the Crusades might thus still indulge the bellicose side of his genius - under the aegis and at the bidding of the Church; and in so doing he would also attain what the spiritual side of his nature ardently sought - a perfect salvation and remission of sins.

On the one hand he repeated the provisions of the Fourth Lateran council on behalf of the Crusade to the Holy Land; on the other hand he preached a Crusade against Frederick II., and promised to all who would join the full benefits of absolution and remission of sins.

Expiating his sins was not so much his aim as to accomplish great deeds for God.

No fault was found in their life and teaching; but they were forbidden to define any sins as being mortal or venial until they had studied for four years.

These are generally crowded with bathers and worshippers, who come to wash away their sins in the sacred river Ganges.

Even if he be an inhabitant of the sacred city he must traverse it once in the year to free himself from the impurities and sins contracted within the holy precincts.

The emperor was forced to confess his sins, and declare himself unworthy of the throne, but Lothair did not succeed in his efforts to make his father a monk.

Those who wished to enter the society must have "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, to be saved from their sins."

Of a real remission of sins the old doctrine of Zoroaster knows nothing, whilst the later Zoroastrian Church admits repentance, expiation and remission.

The Budget is now published in full detail and that for the year 1326 (1910-1911), with the explanatory memorandum which prefaces it, is an admirable work, mercilessly exposing the financial shortcomings and sins of the previous system, or rather want of system, while unshrinkingly facing the difficulties which the present government has inherited.

The object of his incarnation and death was to free man from his sins, to lead him into the path of wisdom, and thus in the end elevate him to the position of a god.

Later the secret was betrayed and came to the ears of persons who, as he says, "urged my sins against my laborious episcopate."

All mortal sins shall be punished and extirpated by those whose office it is so to do.

Libri Poenitentiales began to appear - detailed lists of all possible sins, with the forfeit to be exacted from each.

The final imposition of hands and the bestowal of power to forgive sins at the end of the ordination rite for priests in the Roman Pontifical is later even than the tradition of instruments.

Herein also lay, probably, the true import of the baptism which he administered to those who accepted his message and confessed their sins.

The relation here indicated between the Shepherd's instruction and the initial message of one definitive repentance, open to those believers who have already "broken" their "seal" of baptism by deadly sins, as announced in Visions i.-iv.

He sought the most menial offices, and did penance for his sins by the severest austerities.

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.

The hope of Zion is in future restoration after she has patiently borne the chastisement of her sins.

But the tongue of land at Allahabad, where the Jumna and the Ganges join, is the true Prayag, the place of pilgrimage, to which hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus repair to wash away their sins in the sacred river.

I believe (that there is) remission of sins in the holy catholic church, communion of saints, resurrection of the flesh unto eternal life.

We acknowledge one baptism for remission of sins.

Medieval ceremonies are described as useful but without power to remit sins.

Few sins of omission can be charged against Garrick as a manager, but he refused Home's Douglas, and made the wrong choice between False Delicacy and The Good Natur'd Man.

Difference of opinion as to the absolutely "irremissible" character of mortal sins led to the important controversy associated with the names of Zephyrinus, Tertullian, Calistus, Hippolytus, Cyprian and Novatian, in which the stricter and more montanistic party held that for those who had been guilty of such sins as theft, fraud, denial of the faith, there should be no restoration to church fellowship even in the hour of death.

Of in Jesus Christ the Saviour, who delivers from the bondage of sin by his life, doctrine and death; in the operation of the Holy Ghost; in a holy, universal, Christian church; in forgiveness of sins and the life everlasting.

In his Summa he declares that as there are seven chief sins, either original or of act, so there must be seven sacraments to remedy them; but he only enumerates six, namely baptism and the sacraments of confirmation, of the altar, of penance, last unction and matrimony.

The Cathars even held it necessary, in case a bishop fell into mortal sin, to repeat his ba p tisms and ordinations, for they had been vitiated by his sins.

The Lutheran heresy he held to be God's terrible judgment on the sins of the clergy.

Luther, who believed that the peasants were trying to cloak their dreadful sins with excuses from the gospel, exhorted the government to put down the insurrection.