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Example sentences for "transgression"

Lexicographically close words:
transgresse; transgressed; transgresses; transgresseth; transgressing; transgressions; transgressor; transgressors; tranship; transhipment
  1. Lord hath said, This is my Church, and I will establish it; and nothing shall overthrow it, save it is the transgression of my people.

  2. The pope, he added, would absolve me from a transgression dictated by connubial duty; and, on our bridal day, he proposed the deed should be done.

  3. And it the transgression of one son be no arouse for the omission of another, in like manner, the ruin these turbulent lords would bring upon Scotland is no excuse for your desertion of your interest.

  4. Scots Law) (a) Any transgression or offense against the law.

  5. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

  6. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

  7. And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.

  8. Indecency is the stronger word; indecorum refers to any transgression of etiquette or civility, especially in public.

  9. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

  10. Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.

  11. The invasion of any human right must do dishonor to humanity, and be a transgression of this command.

  12. The sin-offering, and the offering for known transgression make atonement.

  13. All kinds of grain whatever may cause transgression during the passover.

  14. He has sorely suffered, and been bruised for the transgression of man, that they might not receive the smart, and hell, which by their sins they have procured to themselves.

  15. Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?

  16. If thou sayest yea, then I ask, Who told thee that thou standest accused for transgression before the judgment-seat of God?

  17. First, the sin referred to here has a wider range than the transgression spoken of in the second chapter.

  18. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?

  19. But the Sabbath of God would have been no Sabbath to the Son of God, but a constant recurrence of sufferings and deaths, if He did not finish transgression and atone for sin by His one death.

  20. If that transgression has been committed the culprit must pay from one to two hundred rupias, or if he cannot pay he must be killed with parang or klevang (long knife).

  21. Although the rule does not apply to husband and wife, a man is forbidden to touch a woman's dress and vice versa, and transgression must be made good by sacrifice of a fowl or even a pig.

  22. Transgression in its oracle is one of "those juggling fiends that palter with us in a double sense," promising delights and impunity.

  23. Blessed he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered, 2 Blessed the man to whom Jehovah reckons not iniquity, In whose spirit is no guile.

  24. From his serene shelter under the wing, the suppliant looks out on the rout of battled foes, and sees the end which gives the lie to the oracle of transgression and its flatteries.

  25. The wicked has an Oracle of Transgression within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes.

  26. Or again they correspond to that question which is put to us in the Epistle to the Hebrews--"If every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense and reward, how shall we escape?

  27. And it is well for us that we should ask ourselves these questions; for if indeed it is true that every transgression and disobedience shall receive its just recompense and reward, how else shall we escape?

  28. In a majority of instances there was not even a transgression of a prison rule, and when there was such a transgression it was a mere harmless inadvertence.

  29. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

  30. When the fear of the sanction annexed to the transgression of any law is the only motive to obedience, that obedience cannot be genuine.

  31. To the ungodly still it is a law demanding obedience to it, and punishment for past transgression of it as a law, and requiring also not obedience to it as a covenant, but punishment for the breach of it as a covenant.

  32. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

  33. The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

  34. It is a transgression to speak to men of other Trades, save in groups at the Social Meetings.

  35. We were guilty and we confess it here: we were guilty of the great Transgression of Preference.

  36. He learned Latin enough to turn Virgil's "Georgics" into his sort of Italian; but when he read Ariosto by stealth, he atoned for his transgression by failing to understand him.

  37. And the Lord said unto Adam, Behold, I have forgiven thee thy transgression in the Garden of Eden.

  38. Transgression of the law brought death upon all the posterity of Adam, the restoration through the atonement restored all the human family to life.

  39. The penalty of the transgression of the law was the death of the body.

  40. For behold, and also his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have fallen by the transgression of Adam, who have died, not knowing the will of God concerning them, or who have ignorantly sinned.

  41. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

  42. For he gave commandment that all men must repent; for he shewed unto all men that they were lost, because of the transgression of their parents.

  43. But by the transgression of these holy laws, man became sensual and devilish, and became fallen man.

  44. Without Adam's transgression those children could not have existed; through the atonement they are placed in a state of salvation without any act of their own.

  45. It may be violated, but the consequences of transgression are commensurate with the majesty of this law.

  46. I, then, as a citizen of my country, am bound by its Law in such a manner that to will its transgression is to aim at the impossible.

  47. The transgression of laws, if the state is in existence, bears with it the inevitable punishment of the transgressor, that is, the application of that law which the offender has refused to recognise.

  48. The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who being overjoyed with finding a bird's nest, shows it his companion and he steals it.

  49. This view is mythically expressed in the dogma of Christian theology that we are all partakers in Adam's first transgression (which is clearly just the satisfaction of sexual passion), and through it are guilty of suffering and death.

  50. Thus he served Adam; he put the desirableness of sight and a plain transgression of God's law together, that by the loveliness of the one they might the easier be brought to do the other.

  51. The man who walks the earth a sinner against God, becomes by the act and fact of his transgression a dead man.

  52. Am I tempted to presume on my forgiveness, and to fall into transgression once more?

  53. The fool who cherisheth not religion, transgressing the proofs offered by the Rishis, never obtaineth prosperity in any life, for such transgression of the scriptures.

  54. He had already gone further in his transgression of good manners than it ever occurred to him before to do, and he felt something between a holy inquisitor and a spy of the police.

  55. It is to the purport that a certain Field-officer of Cavalry--whose conduct has been the subject of severe strictures from the Press--will speedily be called to answer for a much graver offence than the transgression of regimental discipline.

  56. How Ten Men Of The Citizens [Of Jerusalem] Made A Conspiracy Against Herod, For The Foreign Practices He Had Introduced, Which Was A Transgression Of The Laws Of Their Country.

  57. Now any one may observe his piety, and that of his sister and wife Cleopatra, by that epistle which they wrote in answer to it; for they laid the blame and the transgression of the law upon the head of Onias.

  58. However, these things came to pass as God had foretold to Eli the high priest, when he said that his posterity should be destroyed, on account of the transgression of his two sons.

  59. My boy long remembered with horror and remorse his part in giving up to justice an unconscious offender, and seeing him pay for his transgression with his life.

  60. A feeling of transgression was mixed up with the joys of this kind of navigation; perhaps some of the boys were forbidden it.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transgression" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrocity; breach; crime; delinquency; dereliction; deviation; encroachment; enormity; error; evil; failure; fault; felony; genocide; impropriety; incursion; indiscretion; infraction; infringement; iniquity; injury; injustice; inroad; insubordination; intrusion; invasion; lapse; lawbreaking; lawlessness; malfeasance; misdeed; misdemeanor; nonconformity; offence; offense; omission; outrage; sin; slip; tort; transgression; trespass; trespassing; trip; usurpation; vice; violation; wrong