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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sin .
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Examples
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From the devil there is not generation, but corruption [Bengel]. sinneth from the beginning -- from the time that any began to sin
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8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Since the fall of man [at the beginning of our world] the devil is (ever) sinning (this is the force of "sinneth"; he has sinned from the beginning, is the cause of all sins, and still goes on sinning; present).
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The first mention was at Deuteronomy 19:15 which reads, "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."
Quote of the Day (Denis Diderot) James F. McGrath 2009
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And whoso cloth otherwise than as Allah biddeth him sinneth mortal sin and disobeyeth his Lord, preferring his mundane to his supra-mundane weal.
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He who exceedeth in contention sinneth, and he who against upright standeth not on ward, is not safe from the sword.
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Therefore, though he that is subject to no civil law sinneth in all he does against his conscience, because he has no other rule to follow but his own reason, yet it is not so with him that lives in a
Leviathan 2007
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And when the civil sovereign is an infidel, every one of his own subjects that resisteth him sinneth against the laws of God (for such are the laws of nature), and rejecteth the counsel of the
Leviathan 2007
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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
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