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- noun Plural form of
trespass . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trespass .
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Examples
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No! For, "_If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses_."
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It is important to note that different translations substitute the word trespasses and sometimes sin in place of debt.
The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009
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The word trespasses was likely substituted for debts to differentiate between material debts and spiritual offenses.
The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009
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I was raised with the version used most frequently in both the Episcopal and Catholic traditions, which has substituted the word trespasses for debts since the third century.
The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009
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When children of wrath became children of love, and those that were dead in trespasses an sins were made alive, then this was fulfilled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Such is the gospel call to those that are by nature dead in trespasses and sins, and can no more rise from that death by their own power, than this child could; and yet that word, Awake, and arise from the dead, is neither vain, nor in vain, when it follows immediately,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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He will raise those to spiritual life that have long been dead in trespasses and sins.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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We were by nature more than half dead, twice dead, in trespasses and sins; utterly unable to help ourselves, for we were without strength.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Those which in the prayer are called debts, are here called trespasses, debts of injury, wrongs done to us in our bodies, goods, or reputation: trespasses is an extenuating term for offences, paraptomata -- stumbles, slips, falls.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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He that quickeneth the dead can do any thing, can give a child to Abraham when he is old, can bring the Gentiles, who are dead in trespasses and sins, to a divine and spiritual life, Eph. ii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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