As I said," remarked Random at this stage, "the miserable creature was moresinned against than sinning.
It is my opinion that the poor wretch is more sinned against than sinning.
Theodosius pleaded that David had sinned even more deeply, and yet had been forgiven.
If you have sinned like him, repent like him," said Ambrose; and the Emperor went back weeping to his palace, there to remain as a penitent.
I havesinned like Adam, sinned so heavily that Paradise has sunk low beneath the earth!
He suffers, not because he has sinned but because he is involved in the curse of his race.
If they sinned they might be punished directly by physical evil; and from this evil religion might redeem them by the appropriate ceremonies of purgation.
I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants.
And the son said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
It hassinned enough to suffice for a long life, enough to merit damnation.
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for His wondrous work," complains Asaph (Ps.
It was only after man had sinnedthat war entered into creation, but with the coming of the Messiah, when sin will disappear, all the living beings will regain their primaeval gentleness, and be reinstituted in their first rights.
For in the year 1691 she was called before the Presbytery and confessed: "That she pretended to prophecying and seeing of visions, and that she had sinned greatly in being deluded by Satin, causing her prophecie and see things future.
If hesinned for her, then he would give the lie to all his life.
A woman's justice is apt to be hard on the sinned against--when the sinner is her husband.
I have sinned the sin of anger and presumption against a brother.
It is," he said, "a place that should be shrine for every soul that has sinned the sins of the flesh.
Have ye sinned one sin for the pride o' the eye or the sinful lust of the flesh?
Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Jahveh: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.
His mother had wronged and sinned against him in a way which would be hard to forgive.
Upon this touching scene entered Doris and her mother--the two who having not sinned in the matter of the pecuniary defalcations, had yet suffered so grievously by reason of them.
He had compared himself to Tristan--to one who had sinned and repented--he had spoken of himself as a man whose life had been more than half lived already.
And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood.
David certainly sinned in his designs against Nabal and his family, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when he blessed God for hindering him from executing the revenge he had proposed.
And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord.
When St. Martin came to die he would lie only upon ashes: "I have sinned if I leave you a different example.
Oedipus sinnedas unwittingly as Parzival, and as impulsively.
When he broke a precept, he sinned and knew that he sinned; but he was not conscious of having thereby set up an insurmountable barrier between himself and God.
He had sinned so deeply against heaven and before God that he was not worthy to be called God's child.
He had sinned mortally not once but many times and he knew that, while he stood in danger of eternal damnation for the first sin alone, by every succeeding sin he multiplied his guilt and his punishment.
His arms are open to receive you even though you have sinnedagainst Him.
The whisper ceased and he knew then clearly that his own soul had sinned in thought and word and deed wilfully through his own body.
Yet that was part of the divine purpose and he dared not question its use, he above all others who hadsinned so deeply and so foully against the divine purpose.
Tennessee, it was thought, had sinned the least of all, and, therefore, should be readmitted on lightest terms.
He sinned against the Southerners themselves in not doing so.
Paul had, when he visited Corinth a second time, warned those who had sinned before that visit; he now warns them again, and all others with them who anticipated his coming with an evil conscience, that the hour of decision is at hand.
Fifth--She affirms that her wearing a man's dress is done by her through the will of God; she has sinned by receiving the Sacrament in that garb, which she says she would sooner die than quit wearing.
The spirit of religious exclusiveness, which looks down contemptuously instead of tenderly on worldly men, and banishes a man for ever from the circle of its joys because he has sinned notoriously, is a bad spirit.
It is light when you love it, and no man who has sinned much can love it all at once.
Joy seems to be felt more vividly and more exuberantly by men who havesinned much, than by men who have grown up consistently from childhood with religious education.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
