IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Date: Aug. 13, 2026

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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The Place to Be Cleansed

Exodus 38:1-31

Key Verse: 38:1

He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height.