{"id":85057,"date":"2022-09-29T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/sin-noun-and-verb\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:00:28","slug":"sin-noun-and-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/sin-noun-and-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin (Noun and Verb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sin (Noun and Verb)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> is, lit., &#8220;a missing of the mark,&#8221; but this etymological meaning is largely lost sight of in the NT. It is the most comprehensive term for moral obliquity. It is used of &#8220;sin&#8221; as (a) a principle or source of action, or an inward element producing acts, e.g., <span class='bible'>Rom 3:9<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 5:12-13<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 5:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 6:1-2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 7:7<\/span> (abstract for concrete); <span class='bible'>Rom 7:8<\/span> (twice), <span class='bible'>Rom 7:9<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:11<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:13<\/span>, &#8220;sin, that it might be shown to be sin,&#8221; i.e., &#8220;sin became death to me, that it might be exposed in its heinous character:&#8221; in the clause, &#8220;sin might become exceeding sinful,&#8221; i.e., through the holiness of the Law, the true nature of sin was designed to be manifested to the conscience; <\/p>\n<p> (b) a governing principle or power, e.g., <span class='bible'>Rom 6:6<\/span>; &#8220;(the body) of sin,&#8221; here &#8220;sin&#8221; is spoken of as an organized power, acting through the members of the body, though the seat of &#8220;sin&#8221; is in the will (the body is the organic instrument); in the next clause, and in other passages, as follows, this governing principle is personified, e.g., <span class='bible'>Rom 5:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 6:12<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 6:14<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 6:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 7:11<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:14<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:17<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:20<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:23<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 7:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 8:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 15:56<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 3:13<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 11:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 12:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jam 1:15<\/span> (2nd part); <\/p>\n<p> (c) a generic term (distinct from specific terms such as No. 2 yet sometimes inclusive of concrete wrong doing, e.g., <span class='bible'>Joh 8:21<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 8:34<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 8:46<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 9:41<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 15:22<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 15:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 19:11<\/span>); in <span class='bible'>Rom 8:3<\/span>, &#8220;God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,&#8221; lit., &#8220;flesh of sin,&#8221; the flesh stands for the body, the instrument of indwelling &#8220;sin&#8221; [Christ, preexistently the Son of God, assumed human flesh, &#8220;of the substance of the Virgin Mary;&#8221; the reality of incarnation was His, without taint of sin (for homoioma, &#8220;likeness,&#8221; see LIKENESS)], and as an offering for sin,&#8221; i.e., &#8220;a sin offering&#8221; (so the Sept. e.g., in <span class='bible'>Lev 4:32<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lev 5:6-9<\/span>), &#8220;condemned sin in the flesh,&#8221; i.e., Christ, having taken human nature, &#8220;sin&#8221; apart (<span class='bible'>Heb 4:15<\/span>), and having lived a sinless life, died under the condemnation and judgment due to our &#8220;sin;&#8221; for the generic sense see further, e.g., <span class='bible'>Heb 9:26<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 10:6<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Heb 10:8<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Heb 10:18<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 13:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 1:7-8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:4<\/span> (1st part; in the 2nd part, &#8220;sin&#8221; is defined as &#8220;lawlessness,&#8221; RV), <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:8-9<\/span>; in these verses the AV use of the verb to commit is misleading; not the committal of an act is in view, but a continous course of &#8220;sin,&#8221; as indicated by the RV, &#8220;doeth.&#8221; The Apostle&#8217;s use of the present tense of poieo, &#8220;to do,&#8221; virtually expresses the meaning of prasso, &#8220;to practice,&#8221; which John does not use (it is not infrequent in this sense in Paul&#8217;s Epp., e.g., <span class='bible'>Rom 1:32<\/span>, RV; <span class='bible'>Rom 2:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Gal 5:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Phi 4:9<\/span>); <span class='bible'>1Pe 4:1<\/span> (singular in the best texts), lit., &#8220;has been made to cease from sin,&#8221; i.e., as a result of suffering in the flesh, the mortifying of our members, and of obedience to a Savior who suffered in flesh. Such no longer lives in the flesh, &#8220;to the lusts of men, but to the will of God;&#8221; sometimes the word is used as virtually equivalent to a condition of &#8220;sin,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Joh 1:29<\/span>, &#8220;the sin (not sins) of the world;&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Co 15:17<\/span>; or a course of &#8220;sin,&#8221; characterized by continuous acts, e.g., <span class='bible'>1Th 2:16<\/span>; in <span class='bible'>1Jo 5:16<\/span> (2nd part) the RV marg., is probably to be preferred, &#8220;there is sin unto death,&#8221; not a special act of &#8220;sin,&#8221; but the state or condition producing acts; in <span class='bible'>1Jo 5:17<\/span>, &#8220;all unrighteousness is sin&#8221; is not a definition of &#8220;sin&#8221; (as in <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:4<\/span>), it gives a specification of the term in its generic sense; <\/p>\n<p> (d) a sinful deed, an act of &#8220;sin,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 12:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 7:60<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jam 1:15<\/span> (1st part); <span class='bible'>Jam 2:9<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jam 4:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jam 5:15<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Jam 5:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 5:16<\/span> (1st part). <\/p>\n<p> Notes: (1) Christ is predicated as having been without &#8220;sin&#8221; in every respect, e.g., (a), (b), (c) above, <span class='bible'>2Co 5:21<\/span> (1st part); <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 14:30<\/span>; (d) <span class='bible'>Joh 8:46<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 4:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 2:22<\/span>. (2) In <span class='bible'>Heb 9:28<\/span> (2nd part) the reference is to a &#8220;sin&#8221; offering. (3) In <span class='bible'>2Co 5:21<\/span>, &#8220;Him &#8230; He made to be sin&#8221; indicates that God dealt with Him as He must deal with &#8220;sin,&#8221; and that Christ fulfilled what was typified in the guilt offering. (4) For the phrase &#8220;man of sin&#8221; in <span class='bible'>2Th 2:3<\/span>, see INIQUITY, No. 1. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> akin to No. 1, denotes &#8220;an act of disobedience to Divine law&#8221; [as distinct from No. 1 (a), (b), (c)]; plural in <span class='bible'>Mar 3:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 3:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Pe 1:9<\/span>, in some texts; sing. in <span class='bible'>Mar 3:29<\/span> (some mss. have krisis, AV, &#8220;damnation&#8221;); <span class='bible'>1Co 6:18<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p> Notes: (1) For paraptoma, rendered &#8220;sins&#8221; in the AV in <span class='bible'>Eph 1:7<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eph 2:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Col 2:13<\/span> (RV, &#8220;trespass&#8221;), see TRESPASS. In <span class='bible'>Jam 5:16<\/span>, the best texts have No. 1 (RV, &#8220;sins&#8221;). (2) For synonymous terms see DISOBEDIENCE, ERROR, FAULT, INIQUITY, TRANSGRESSION, UNGODLINESS. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;without sin&#8221; (a, negative, n, euphonic, and C, No. 1), is found in <span class='bible'>Joh 8:7<\/span>. In the Sept., <span class='bible'>Deu 29:19<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> lit., &#8220;to miss the mark,&#8221; is used in the NT (a) of &#8220;sinning&#8221; against God, (1) by angels, <span class='bible'>2Pe 2:4<\/span>; (2) by man, <span class='bible'>Mat 27:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 15:18<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Luk 15:21<\/span> (heaven standing, by metonymy, for God); <span class='bible'>Joh 5:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 8:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 9:2-3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 2:12<\/span> (twice); <span class='bible'>Rom 3:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 5:12<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 5:14<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Rom 5:16<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 6:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 7:28<\/span> (twice), <span class='bible'>1Co 7:36<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 15:34<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eph 4:26<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ti 5:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Tit 3:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 3:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 10:26<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 1:10<\/span>; in <span class='bible'>1Jo 2:1<\/span> (twice), the aorist tense in each place, referring to an act of &#8220;sin;&#8221; on the contrary, in <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:6<\/span> (twice), <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:8-9<\/span>, the present tense indicates, not the committal of an act, but the continuous practice of &#8220;sin&#8221; [see on A, No. 1 (c)]; in <span class='bible'>1Jo 5:16<\/span> (twice) the present tense indicates the condition resulting from an act, &#8220;unto death&#8221; signifying &#8220;tending towards death;&#8221; (b) against Christ, <span class='bible'>1Co 8:12<\/span>; (c) against man, (1) a brother, <span class='bible'>Mat 18:15<\/span>, RV, &#8220;sin&#8221; (AV, &#8220;tresspass&#8221;); <span class='bible'>Mat 18:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 17:3-4<\/span>, RV, &#8220;sin&#8221; (AV, &#8220;trespass&#8221;); <span class='bible'>1Co 8:12<\/span>; (2) in <span class='bible'>Luk 15:18<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Luk 15:21<\/span>, against the father by the Prodigal Son, &#8220;in thy sight&#8221; being suggestive of befitting reverence; (d) against Jewish law, the Temple, and Caesar, <span class='bible'>Act 25:8<\/span>, RV, &#8220;sinned&#8221; (AV, &#8220;offended&#8221;); (e) against one&#8217;s own body, by fornication, <span class='bible'>1Co 6:18<\/span>; (f) against earthly masters by servants, <span class='bible'>1Pe 2:20<\/span>, RV, &#8220;(when) ye sin (and are buffeted for it),&#8221; AV, &#8220;(when ye be buffeted) for your faults,&#8221; lit., &#8220;having sinned.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to sin previously&#8221; (pro, &#8220;before,&#8221; and No. 1), occurs in <span class='bible'>2Co 12:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Co 13:2<\/span>, RV in each place, &#8220;have sinned heretofore&#8221; (so AV in the 2nd; in the 1st, &#8220;have sinned already&#8221;). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sin (Noun and Verb) is, lit., &#8220;a missing of the mark,&#8221; but this etymological meaning is largely lost sight of in the NT. It is the most comprehensive term for moral obliquity. It is used of &#8220;sin&#8221; as (a) a principle or source of action, or an inward element producing acts, e.g., Rom 3:9; Rom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/sin-noun-and-verb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sin (Noun and Verb)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}