Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. – Matthew 15:19. Original sin, the depravity of our nature, produces what are called actual sins, that is to say, sins that are acted, done, carried into …

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. —John 3:6. By “flesh” is meant the sinful depravity of human nature. And, indeed, human nature is totally and entirely depraved; it …

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He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. —I John 3:8. How did sin enter the world? This is a question which human reason cannot answer. Our Catechism is right in answering from the …

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Sin is the transgression of the Law. – I John 3:4. What, properly speaking, is sin? “Sin is the transgression of the Law,” says our text. The divine Law tells us what is right. Sin is every transgression of the …

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This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way …

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By the Law is the knowledge of sin. – Romans 3:20. God knows, of course, that we cannot keep His Law perfectly, as His holiness demands of us. But He wants us also to know that this is the case. …

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Enter not into judgment with Thy servants; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified. – Psalm 143:2. Is it true that all men, without exception, have deserved death by their transgression of the divine Law? And is …

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The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. – Romans 6:23. The real and completely just punishment with which God threatens those who hate Him and transgress His commandments …

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I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and …

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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. – Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. – Exodus 20:17. These are God’s Ninth …

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