IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Date: Feb. 4, 2024

Question

What is sin?

Answer

Sin is disobeying or not conforming to God's law in any way.

Reference Passages

Leviticus 5:17

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.

James 4:17

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

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Not Using One’s Rights

1 Corinthians 9:1-18

Key Verse: 9:12b

12 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.