Sentences with phrase «sin and its evil consequences»

He has proven himself able to resist the temptations that lead to sin and its evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt of God's promises.

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The root of evil is sin and the consequences of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life (Rom.

God forgives the sinner not in the sense that the sinner's past is changed, not in the sense that the consequences of his sin (to himself and others including God) are obliterated and past evils are no longer evils, but in the sense that possibilities for good are ever present in spite of the evils.

It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious evil consequences and is hardest to reckon with.

The new formula, in consequence, was that man's happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one thing supremely pleases God, moral goodness, and one thing supremely he hates, moral evil; that whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all human suffering is thus punishment for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»

First, there must be contrition, the recognition of sin as sin, an actual awareness of evil as not desired, through a full understanding of its consequences and implications.