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Example sentences for "transgressions"

Lexicographically close words:
transgressed; transgresses; transgresseth; transgressing; transgression; transgressor; transgressors; tranship; transhipment; transhipped
  1. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid My face from them.

  2. In Zechariah and in Job(575) Satan appears at the throne of God as the prosecutor, roaming about the earth to espy the transgressions of men, seeking to lure them to their destruction.

  3. And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?

  4. They attacked scathingly transgressions of the laws of righteousness and purity, the true sins against God, because these originate in dullness of heart, unbridled passion, and overbearing pride, all so hateful to Him.

  5. But apart from the transgressions of our first parents, there is a vast amount of sin, crime and corruption in the world.

  6. Isaiah 53 describes the servant of Jehovah as rejected and despised, misunderstood, bearing the transgressions and chastisement of all.

  7. This part of my work,' he says, 'I fulfilled with a great sense, for the terrors of the law and guilt for my transgressions lay heavy on my conscience.

  8. But murder and adultery, bad as they might be, were only transgressions of the law of Moses.

  9. And He, like to the father of a family, does only good to His children, to whom He forgives their transgressions if they repent of them.

  10. He who has recovered his primitive purity," said Issa, "shall die with his transgressions forgiven and have the right to contemplate the majesty of God.

  11. And they shall bear their confusion, and all the transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against me, when they shall dwell in their land securely fearing no man: 39:27.

  12. That in the day when I shall begin to visit the transgressions of Israel, I will visit upon him, and upon the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altars shall be cut off, and shall fall to the ground.

  13. And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

  14. If they will but remember their own transgressions against the Lord, they will admit that the humblest place is not too humble for their merits; and it is the humble whom God delights to honour.

  15. No man who habitually considers his own transgressions will be eager to be severe upon the transgressions of others, or to usurp functions which require full authority and perfect knowledge for their equitable and adequate performance.

  16. No Jew, whether Christian or not, could plead ignorance as an excuse for his transgressions in this matter.

  17. As far as the east is from the west, So far hath He removed our transgressions from us.

  18. And the principle is at least as old as the Book of Proverbs: "He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy" (xxviii.

  19. He made a saint of me, and persuaded me that my transgressions were forgiven me.

  20. Since it is impossible for God, consistently with His justice and mercy, to save the sinner in his sins, He deprives him of the existence which his transgressions have forfeited, and of which he has proved himself unworthy.

  21. Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them: how should we then live?

  22. It is conceived as an aggregate of individuals bound together in social relations; and the sins charged against it are the actual transgressions of the men who are members of the community.

  23. Babylonian exile and the dispersion among the nations, which hung like a doom over the nation during its whole history in Canaan, and is represented as a direct consequence of their transgressions in the wilderness.

  24. In the system of Ezekiel, however, we observe that the guilt-offering plays no part in the stated service, and must therefore have been reserved for private transgressions of the law of holiness.

  25. Because my transgressions are multiplied and my own efforts at self-justification rather a hindrance than a furtherance, therefore Christ the Son of God gave Himself into death for my sins.

  26. In other words, that transgressions might be recognized as such and thus increased.

  27. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him.

  28. Even the transgressions of man may be turned to the accomplishment of high purposes.

  29. Yet in all these malignant doings, he can go no farther than the transgressions of the victim may enable him, or the wisdom of God may permit him to go, and he may at any time be checked by the superior power.

  30. It is plain, however, from the scriptural doctrine of human responsibility, and the unerring justice of God, that in his transgressions as in his righteous deeds, man will be judged according to his ability to comprehend law.

  31. It was not His own transgressions and iniquities which were punished in Him, but ours.

  32. His transgressions are the less pardonable, because he sinned against God knowing His grandeur and power, as appears from his reply to the prophet.

  33. For him the gravest transgressions committed by Jeroboam were slight peccadilloes.

  34. Not enough that the Temple lies in ashes because of our sins, should we add to our transgressions by coaxing music from the strings of our holy harps in honor of these 'dwarfs'?

  35. The eternal Father earnestly commands that we should hear the Son, and it is the greatest of all transgressions if we despise Him and do not approve His voice.

  36. Souls go to ruin as well when, in epicurean security, they make light of the wrath of God as when they are overcome by doubt and cast down by anxious sorrow, and these transgressions aggravate the punishment.

  37. Confession of sins and transgressions before human beings is not permissible, as it hath never been nor will ever be conducive to divine forgiveness.

  38. How readily does mine host forgive the transgressions which took their origin in his own Burgundy!

  39. There are historical warrants for such transgressions being accepted as acts almost of compulsion.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transgressions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.