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Example sentences for "iniquity"

Lexicographically close words:
inioied; inioy; iniquitie; iniquities; iniquitous; initia; initial; initialed; initialled; initially
  1. It is the greatest piece of iniquity that the Yankees have ever been guilty of, and no Comstock should lend himself to the work in any capacity.

  2. His cruel sufferings were in the stead of ours, and "on him was laid the iniquity of us all.

  3. Iniquity of this kind was utterly new to him; his curiosity was awakened; he no longer feigned indifference, and the poison of evil communication flowed deep into his veins.

  4. Two facts eminently illustrate the barbarous iniquity of the Courts of Justice when dealing with their witch prisoners.

  5. It is difficult to decide which is the more astonishing, the perfect folly or the perfect iniquity of the Code: it is easier to understand how so many thousands of victims were helplessly sacrificed.

  6. Would that such a man might arise and, wholly for the sake of God, admonish, privately and openly, the people, that haply they may bestir themselves and aid this wronged One Whom the workers of iniquity have so sorely afflicted.

  7. Your iniquity waxed greater and greater until ye slew Him Who had never taken His eyes away from the face of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great.

  8. The workers of iniquity are her burdens, could ye but perceive it.

  9. All things," says Seneca, "are full of iniquity and vice; more crime is committed than can be remedied by restraint.

  10. A hawker’s licence, about the size of one of these pages, covers a life-time of sin and iniquity in this respect.

  11. There is a substratum of iniquity lower than any writers have ever touched.

  12. Scattering flowers upon a cesspool of iniquity will not purify it.

  13. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  14. But though a world of hidden iniquity will appear when the counsels of the hearts shall be made manifest.

  15. Far be wickedness from God and iniquity from the Almighty.

  16. Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cutoff; his iniquity shall be upon him.

  17. The Jews had enjoyed greater religious privileges than others--had more means of instruction in divine things, and had neglected and abused them, and seem to have more completely filled up the measure of their iniquity than any other people.

  18. They were also the church of God; and he was now entering into judgment with his church, as a community the measure of whose iniquity was full.

  19. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  20. But others foretell the happy day, and several seem to dwell delightfully upon it, and represent it as continuing to the end of time; and none give the remotest hint that it is to terminate, and iniquity again to become universally prevalent.

  21. The iniquity of fathers is visited on their children; the iniquity of communities on particular generations, and on individuals; and often on those who are not the most guilty!

  22. Most pointedly did it reprove the abandoned prince, who was adding iniquity to transgression, and hardening himself in the time of trouble!

  23. The times would make any that love the Lord sick and faint, to consider how iniquity aboundeth, and how dull we are in observing sins in ourselves, and how quick-sighted to find them out in others, and what bondage we are in.

  24. The Lord is gracious who keepeth your Ladyship in the furnace, when many put out their hand to iniquity one way or other.

  25. Faith, I grant, would suffer affliction for Him with good-will, rather than the least iniquity should be committed; but sense loves no bands.

  26. The obscurity in which the origin of all the present old governments is buried, implies the iniquity and disgrace with which they began.

  27. What are the present Governments of Europe but a scene of iniquity and oppression?

  28. It would seem that neither our Savior nor Paul saw the iniquity of slavery as you and your party do.

  29. They are finding out that it is a duty to come out from churches which sanction the vilest iniquity that ever existed, or exhaust their zeal for the oppressed in tame resolves, never to be executed.

  30. The only way to prevent them from being swept along by the flood tides of this devastating iniquity until they launch upon the shoreless sea of wrath, is to sound the alarm!

  31. Is there not a deep and dark iniquity among slaveholders which makes it not only necessary that slaves should be excluded from civil, but also from ecclesiastical tribunals?

  32. It has been demonstrated that slavery is a complicated and monstrous iniquity involving a direct violation of the whole second table of the Decalogue.

  33. In such divided records partiality hath much depraved history, wherein if the equity of the reader do not correct the iniquity of the writer, he will be much confounded with repugnancies, and often find in the same person, Numa and Nero.

  34. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

  35. Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides upon us.

  36. The world and its cares, the flesh and its sins, have returned with new temptations, and the eloquence of iniquity has prevailed over the voice of truth.

  37. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  38. He who has been taught by the Spirit respecting the iniquity of sin, and views it in its relations to the Divine holiness, has no wish to be pardoned at the expense of justice.

  39. And when the spirit had departed, and while the tones of its solemn and startling cry were still rolling through your soul, did not a temptation to sin solicit you, and did you not drink in its iniquity like water?

  40. He is conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity (Ps.

  41. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I no longer hid.

  42. In the phrase of the prophet, he "draws iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope.

  43. Then the soul acknowledges its sin, and its iniquity it hides no longer.

  44. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.

  45. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

  46. The apostle Paul declared, even in his day, “The mystery of iniquity doth already work.

  47. He saw that iniquity existed among all classes of the clergy.

  48. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them.

  49. Terrible was the agony of remorse as he beheld iniquity abounding, and, in answer to his warnings, met the reproaches cast upon himself as the cause of sin.

  50. The infatuation of vice, the wanton taking of life, the terrible increase of intemperance and iniquity of every order and degree, should arouse all who fear God, to inquire what can be done to stay the tide of evil.

  51. The teachings of religious leaders have opened the door to infidelity, to Spiritualism, and to contempt for God’s holy law; and upon these leaders rests a fearful responsibility for the iniquity that exists in the Christian world.

  52. They had no time to dispute, while error and iniquity were teeming everywhere, and sinners were going down to ruin.

  53. Many devoted Romanists, who had seen and lamented the terrible iniquity prevailing in the church, but had not known how to arrest its progress, read the propositions with great joy, recognizing in them the voice of God.

  54. Through the deceptive power of Satan, the workers of iniquity obtain sympathy and admiration, and are thus constantly leading others to rebellion.

  55. Centuries of apostasy and crime had been treasuring up wrath against the day of retribution; and when their iniquity was full, the despisers of God learned too late that it is a fearful thing to have worn out the divine patience.

  56. Already the doctrine that men are released from obedience to God’s requirements has weakened the force of moral obligation, and opened the flood-gates of iniquity upon the world.

  57. When the iniquity of the antediluvians moved Him to bring a flood of waters upon the earth, He first made known to them His purpose, that they might have opportunity to turn from their evil ways.

  58. I felt that the scandal which would follow the publication of this mystery of iniquity would be awful; that it would even cause many, forever, to lose faith in our church.

  59. It means how to commit sins without shame, it means to plunge the soul into every kind of iniquity and turpitude without remorse!

  60. The monstrous iniquity of the bishop carries its antidote with itself.

  61. They even say that the bishop, carrying iniquity to its extreme bonds, wanted to interdict you.

  62. He agreed with me that several of the Alexanders, the Johns, the Piuses and the Leos, were sunk much deeper in the abyss of every kind of iniquity than his priests.

  63. It was in Chicago that this great iniquity was to begin.

  64. The better to conceal their iniquity from the public, he persuaded his victim to dress herself as a young man, and throw her dress into the river, to make her parents and the whole parish believe that she was drowned.

  65. And now the cup of iniquity is full, and the vials of wrath will be poured out.

  66. For I know your enemies will not shrink from any iniquity to destroy your good name, and prevent you from directing the tide of emigration from Canada to the valley of the Mississippi.

  67. They initiate them into such mysteries of iniquity as would terrify old galley slaves.

  68. She carried my iniquity under her brows, and looked out on me through it.

  69. He glanced at her iniquity for a justification of it, without any desire to do her a permanent hurt: he was highly civilized: but with a strong intention to give her all the benefit of a scandal, supposing a scandal, or ordinary tattle.

  70. A man spotted with every iniquity the world abhors, and I am to see him holding my daughter by the hand!

  71. Then will the Lord come with His previously gathered Church, execute judgment on the ungodly, sweep away all iniquity and set up the new administration of righteousness and truth.

  72. Satan bound, iniquity overthrown, God and Christ and the Holy Spirit ruling in the lives of men.

  73. He sings of Him as a man of war, as the head of celestial armies, coming to execute judgment, overthrow iniquity and establish His reign and rule of righteousness.

  74. For three hundred years Enoch walked amid the slime, the slush and the uprising tide of human iniquity in a God-hating and God-defying world.

  75. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  76. Now this house iniquity standeth in these things.

  77. First, Iniquity is a very dangerous and hurtful thing to men in general; for it is that which did captivate the world at the beginning, and that made it a bond-slave to the devil.

  78. Now, all these are mighty sins; these have made thine iniquity infinite.

  79. Here lay Noah's excellency, here lay Lot's excellency, and here will lie thy excellency, if thou keep thyself from the iniquity of this day.

  80. Peter 3:7) And until each relation be managed with respect to these things, this house iniquity will be cherished there.

  81. The first is, that iniquity is a very dangerous and hurtful thing, as to the souls of sinners in general; so to them that name the name of Christ.

  82. Such an evil thing is house iniquity in the eyes of the God that is above.

  83. But even as when the pestilence is come into a place, it infecteth and casteth down the healthful; so the iniquity of the last times will infest and pollute the godly.


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    Other words:
    abomination; atrocity; bad; breach; crime; delinquency; dereliction; devilry; disgrace; enormity; error; evil; failure; fault; felony; genocide; harm; illegality; impropriety; indiscretion; infamy; iniquity; injury; injustice; knavery; lapse; malfeasance; misdeed; misdemeanor; offense; omission; outrage; scandal; shame; sin; slip; tort; transgression; trespass; trip; unlawfulness; vice; villainy; wrong; wrongdoing