Theology & Doctrine
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.