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THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF

SIN AND THE SINNER

By Pastor Dennis Dills

WHAT IS SIN?

THE BIBLE DEFINITION OF SIN

1. Coming short of the glory of God is sin. Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

2. The transgression of the law of God is sin. 1 John 3:4, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

3. All unrighteousness is sin. 1 John 5:17, "All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death."

4. Knowing to do good and doing it not is sin. James 4:17, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."

5. The thought of foolishness is sin. Proverbs 24:9, "The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men."

6. Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Romans 14:23, "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin."

7. A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin. Proverbs 21:4, "An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin."

8. Having respect of persons is sin. James 2:9, "But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."

9. Rebellion and stubbornness is sin. 1 Samuel 15:23, "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king."

10. Disobedience to God is sin. Jeremiah 40:3, "Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you."

11. Backsliding is sin. Jeremiah 14:7, "O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee."

1. 12.Speaking against God is sin. Numbers 21:7, "Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people."

13. Despising one’s neighbor is sin. Proverbs 14:21, "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he."

14. Rejecting Jesus (blaspheming the Holy Ghost) is sin which cannot be forgiven. Mark 3:28-29, "Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:"

THERE ARE WORDS IN THE OLD AND NEW

TESTAMENTS THAT NEED OUR ATTENTION.

1. Transgression. (The passing over or a violation of the Law of God. A rebellion. Disobedience, to step across.)

2. Sin. (Missing the mark, wandering from a marked out path of uprightness and honor, doing or going wrong.)

3. Iniquity. (Crookedness as opposed to straightness and uprightness, that which is wrong as opposed to that which is right, lawlessness, contempt and violation of the Law of God.)

4. Evil. (Badness, wickedness, depravity, malice and maliciousness.)

5. Trespass. (A falling aside, deviation from the right path.)

6. Original sin. (The sin that humanity inherited from Adam in his fall in the garden of Eden.)

7. Total depravity. (The entire absence of holiness and lack of appreciating God as Creator, Keeper, Redeemer, Ruler, etc. The total separation of the soul from God so that the person neither knows Him nor seeks after Him, nor lives for His glory. This does not mean that all men are equally wicked, nor that they are as bad as they can be, nor yet that they are utterly destitute of every moral virtue. Many are outwardly moral and honest and good in the eyes of the world, and yet are totally depraved.

MAN’S STATE BY NATURE

1. Man was created in the image of God. Genesis 1:26, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

2. Adam fell and by the fall he received a corrupt nature. He begat sons in his own sinful likeness. Genesis 5:3, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"

3. Now, man is born in sin. Psalms 51:5, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."

4. He is born unclean. Job 25:4, "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?"

5. He goes astray as soon as he is born, telling lies. Psalms 58:3, "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."

6. He is evil from his youth. Genesis 8:21, "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."

7. He is a transgressor from his birth. Isaiah 48:8, "Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb."

8. He is born of the flesh and must be born again. John 3:6-7, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

THE HEART OF MAN AS SIN HAS MADE HIM

The heart in the following texts is not speaking of the physical organ of the body but the seat of the affections, the passions, the will, the moral character, or the spiritual life of man.

The sinner does wicked deeds, thinks evil thoughts, goes to bad places, and rejects Jesus Christ because he has an evil heart. It is the business of the Christian, not to excuse him, nor to persuade him to turn over a new leaf, or to quit doing this or that, or going here or there, but to show him his need of a new, clean heart. Psalms 51:10, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." No amount of culture, refinement, education, sociology, counseling, or religious profession can change man’s nature. It will take the Grace of God through the miracle of the New Birth to change him. Then and

only then will he be changed and made a new creature. 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

1. The heart is only evil continually. Genesis 6:5, "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

2. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

3. The heart is the seat and source of sin. Matthew 15:19, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:"

4. The heart is hard. Romans 2:5, "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;"

5. The heart is blind. Ephesians 4:18, "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:"

6. The heart is stony. Ezekiel 11:19, "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:"

7. The heart is rebellious. Jeremiah 5:23, "But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone."

8. The heart is covetous. Jeremiah 22:17, "But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."

9. The heart is far from God. Isaiah 29:13, "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:"

10. The heart is foolish and darkened. Romans 1:21, "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."

11. Man can have a double heart. Psalms 12:2, "They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."

12. The heart is idolatrous. Ezekiel 20:16, "Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols."

13. The heart is proud. Proverbs 16:5, "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished."

14. The heart is sometimes froward. Proverbs 11:20, "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight." Froward—not willing to yield or comply with what is required, unyielding, ungovernable, disobedient.

15. The heart can be full of mischief. Psalms 28:3, "Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts."

16. Man can have a faint heart. Isaiah 1:5, "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."

17. The heart is evil. Jeremiah 7:24, "But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward."

18. The heart is deceitful. Jeremiah 23:26, "How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;"

19. The heart can be deceived. Isaiah 44:20, "He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

SINS WHICH PROCEED OUT FROM THE HEART

OF MAN AND DEFILE HIM.

Mark 7:20-22, "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:" See also Matthew 15:18-20.

1. EVIL THOUGHTS Genesis 6:5, "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

2. ADULTERIES (The unfaithfulness of any married person to the marriage bed.)

1. FORNICATIONS (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

2. MURDERS (The act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice, by a person of a sound mind.)

3. THEFTS (The private unlawful act of taking another persons goods or valuables without the consent or knowledge of that person.)

4. COVETOUSNESS (Earnestly desiring or greatly wishing for what others have.)

5. WICKEDNESS (Evil practices, immorality, sinfulness, a departure from the rules of Divine law, corrupt manners.)

6. DECEIT (That which is obtained by fraud or oppression, to mislead or ensnare.)

7. LASCIVIOUSNESS (Looseness, wantonness, lewd, lustful.)

8. AN EVIL EYE (Looking with an evil eye, or with envy, jealousy.)

9. BLASPHEMY (To utter reproachful and irreverent terms about God.)

10. PRIDE (An unreasonable conceit of one’s own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank, etc.)

11. FOOLISHNESS (Void of understanding or sound judgment, acting without judgment or discretion in particular things.)

SINS OF THOSE WHO WILL NOT RETAIN GOD

IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND ARE TURNED

OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND.

Romans 1:28-32, "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

1. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (The habitual violation of the laws of God.)

2. FORNICATION (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

3. WICKEDNESS (Evil practices, immorality, sinfulness, a departure from the rules of Divine law, corrupt manners.)

4. COVETOUSNESS (Earnestly desiring or greatly wishing for what others have.)

5. MALICIOUSNESS (Harboring extreme ill will with deliberate intention to injure.)

6. ENVY (Discontent for the happiness enjoyed by another or for the things they possess, it has a degree of hatred and malice with a desire to put that person down, springs from pride.)

7. MURDER (The act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice, by a person of a sound mind.)

8. DEBATE (To dispute, argue, dispute the truth of the Word of God.)

9. DECEIT (That which is obtained by fraud or oppression, to mislead or ensnare.)

10. MALIGNITY (Deep rooted spite, extreme enmity or evil intentions.)

11. WHISPERERS (A tattler, one who tells secrets, a backbiter, one who slanders secretly.)

12. BACKBITERS (To slander, reproach, or speak ill of one behind their back or out of their presence.)

13. HATERS OF GOD (Dislike and disgust for God and the things of God.)

14. DESPITEFUL (Extreme malice, angry hatred, defiance of the things of God.)

15. PROUD (Having a high or unreasonable conceit of one’s own excellence, either of body or mind, arrogant.)

16. BOASTERS (To brag, glory, exalt one’s self or their accomplishments or possessions.)

17. INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS (One who makes some new thing for the purpose of evil without God in his mind.)

18. DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS (Refusing to obey, violation of a command, refusing to yield to authority.)

19. WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING (Unable or unwilling to comprehend the real state of things presented to them.)

20. COVENANT BREAKERS (The breaking of a mutual agreement either verbal or in writing.)

21. WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION (Without love or concern for that which is natural such as family, spouse, etc. A turning from that which God has put naturally in your heart to have affection for.)

22. IMPLACABLE (Cannot be appeased, pacified, rendered peaceable, stubborn, or constant enemies of the truth.)

23. UNMERCIFUL (Cruel, unforgiving, inhuman, no tenderness, no compassion.)

SINS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS WHO WILL

NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD

1 Corinthians 6:9-10, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

If the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, who are the unrighteous? The word unrighteous means: (Those who are not righteous, not just, not conformed in heart and life to the divine laws of God, evil, wicked, sinful.) Now God gives a list of those who are unrighteous. Let us look at them. These are not sins of the righteous or those who are right with God, but those who do not know the Lord.

1. FORNICATORS (Unmarried person, male or female, sinning and defiling the marriage bed outside of wedlock.)

2. IDOLATERS (A worshipper of idols, one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands, one who worships as a deity that which is not God, a pagan.)

3. ADULTERERS (One who commits adultery or is unfaithful to the marriage vow.)

4. EFFEMINATE (The softness, delicacy, and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female gender, but which in males are deemed a reproach, unmanly, womanish, could include cross dressers.)

5. ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND (One who perverts the natural as God intended it, men with men, women with women, sodomites.)

6. THEIVES (Those who steal that which is not theirs from others, taking what does not belong to them.)

7. COVETOUS (One who covets or desires what others possess.)

8. DRUNKARDS (One who continually drinks strong drink, continually intoxicates.)

9. REVILERS (One who uses reproachful words against another.)

10. EXTORTIONERS (The act or practice of taking any thing from a person by force, authority, or any undue exercise of power.)

SINS WHICH THE CHRISTIAN IS COMMANDED NOT TO DO.

Romans 13:13-14, "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."

1. NO RIOTING (To act or move without control or restraint, to excess in feasting, drinking, or other sensual indulgences, to live in luxury, to raise an uproar or sedition.)

2. NO DRUNKENESS (A state in which a person is overpowered by strong drink so his reasoning is disordered, a disorder of the faculties to resemble intoxication.)

3. NO CHAMBERING (One who indulges in lewd, immodest behavior.)

4. NO WANTONNESS (Unrestrained, running to excess, deviating from the rules of chastity, negligence of restraint.)

5. NO STRIFE (Struggle for victory, quarrel or war, contrary, opposition.)

6. NO ENVYING (Ill will towards others because of some superiority.)

SINS THE CHRISTIAN IS COMMANDED

NOT TO KEEP COMPANY WITH.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11, "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

1. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH FORNICATORS. (One who commits fornication, which is, an unmarried person, male or female, sinning and defiling the marriage bed outside of wedlock.)

2. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH THE COVETOUS. (One who covets or desires what others possess.)

3. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH EXTORTIONERS. (The act or practice of taking any thing from a person by force, authority, or any undue exercise of power,)

4. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH IDOLATERS. (A worshipper of idols, one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands, one who worships as a deity that which is not God, a pagan.)

5. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH RAILERS. (One who scoffs, insults with reproachable language.)

1. DON’T KEEP COMPANY WITH DRUNKARDS. (One who continually drinks strong drink, continually intoxicates.)

SINS FOUND AMONG CHURCH PEOPLE THAT

NEED TO BE REPENTED OF

2 Corinthians 12:20-21, "For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed."

1. DEBATES (Strife, contention, quarrel, dispute, engage in combat.)

2. ENVYINGS (Ill will towards others because of some superiority.)

3. WRATHS (Expression of violent anger.)

4. STRIFES (Struggle for victory, quarrel or war, contrary, opposition.)

5. BACKBITINGS (To slander, reproach, or speak ill of one behind their back or out of their presence.)

6. WHISPERINGS ( A tattler, one who tells secrets, a backbiter, one who slanders secretly.)

7. SWELLINGS (Rising of passions to anger, grief, or pride.)

8. TUMULTS (An uproar with raised voices, a commotion, disorderly conduct, agitation.)

9. UNCLEANNESS (Moral impurity, indecent, filthiness, sinfulness.)

10. FORNICATION (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

11. LASCIVIOUSNESS (Looseness, wantonness, lewd, lustful.)

SINS WHICH ARE THE WORKS OF THE FLESH

Galatians 5:19-21, "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

1. ADULTERY (The unfaithfulness of any married person to the marriage bed.)

2. FORNICATION (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

3. UNCLEANNESS (Moral impurity, indecent, filthiness, sinfulness.)

4. LASCIVIOUSNESS (Looseness, wantonness, lewd, lustful.)

5. IDOLATRY (A worshipper of idols, one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands, one who worships as a deity that which is not God, a pagan.)

6. WITCHCRAFT (The practice of witches, enchantment, sorcery.)

7. HATRED (An extreme dislike for someone which may stem from envy or jealousy.)

8. VARIANCE (A disagreement, dispute or controversy, discord.)

9. EMULATIONS (To attempt to be superior to others, get ahead of to obtain the attention and the honor.)

10. WRATH (Expression of violent anger.)

11. STRIFE (Struggle for victory, quarrel or war, contrary, opposition.)

12. SEDITIONS (To excite violence or opposition.)

13. HERESIES (To teach against established doctrines, to oppose the Word of God.)

14. ENVYINGS (Ill will towards others because of some superiority.)

15. MURDERS (The act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice, by a person of a sound mind.)

16. DRUNKENNESS (A state in which a person is overpowered by strong drink so his reasoning is disordered, a disorder of the faculties to resemble intoxication.)

17. REVELLINGS (Feasting and parties with noisy merriment.)

SINS WHICH ARE THE WALK OF THE UNSAVED.

Ephesians 4:17-19, "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."

1. VANITY OF THEIR MIND. (Emptiness, fruitless desire, idle show, arrogance.)

2. THEIR UNDERSTANDING DARKENED. (To not allow the Holy Spirit or the Word of God to enlighten the mind.)

3. ALIENATED FROM GOD. (To withdraw from, no affection for God.)

4. IGNORANCE (Lack of knowledge, untaught, uninformed, unenlightened.)

5. BLINDNESS OF THEIR HEART. (Lack of truth, no sight for that which is right.)

6. PAST FEELING. (Hard hearted, calloused, no concern for the truth.)

7. LASCIVIOUSNESS (Looseness, wantonness, lewd, lustful.)

8. UNCLEANNESS (Moral impurity, indecent, filthiness, sinfulness.)

9. GREEDINESS (Having a strong keen desire for anything that will satisfy the appetite of the flesh.)

SINS WHICH CHRISTIANS MUST PUT AWAY

Ephesians 4:25-32, "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

1. PUT AWAY LYING. (Bearing false witness, telling that which is not true.)

2. PUT AWAY STEALING. (To take that which does not belong to you.)

3. PUT AWAY CORRUPT COMMUNICATIONS. (Corrupt-that which is not pure, to defile, to pervert. Communications deals with our talk in dealing with each other. So corrupt communications would be the impure conversation and language between people.)

4. PUT AWAY BITTERNESS. (Cruel, painful, afflicting, reproachable words.)

5. PUT AWAY WRATH. (Expression of violent anger.)

6. PUT AWAY ANGER. (To provoke, to make painful, to rouse resentment.)

7. PUT AWAY CLAMOUR. (To make demands, to complain with a loud voice.)

8. PUT AWAY EVIL SPEAKING. (Corrupt, wicked, conversation with no morals.)

9. PUT AWAY MALICE. (To regard with extreme ill will.)

SINS THAT ARE NOT TO BE ONCE

NAMED AMONG CHRISTIANS

Ephesians 5:3-4, "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks."

1. FORNICATION (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

2. UNCLEANNESS (Moral impurity, indecent, filthiness, sinfulness.)

3. COVETOUSNESS (One who covets or desires what others possess.)

4. FILTHINESS (Foul, dirty, nasty, impurity, unclean, perverted, defiled.)

5. FOOLISH TALKING (Unwise speaking, acting without regard to divine law.)

6. JESTING (To make light, or joke about things of God.)

SINS OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO INHERITANCE

IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

Ephesians 5:5, "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1. WHOREMONGER (The practice of unlawful relationships with women.)

2. UNCLEAN PERSON (A person who is morally impure, sinful.)

3. COVETOUS MAN (One who covets or desires what others possess.)

4. IDOLATER (A worshipper of idols, one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands, one who worships as a deity that which is not God, a pagan.)

SINS THAT WILL BRING THE WRATH OF GOD.

Colossians 3:5-6, "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

MORTIFY: To destroy, to subdue, to humble, to bring into subjection, to gain control of, to restrain.

1. FORNICATION (Sexual lewdness between unmarried persons.)

2. UNCLEANNESS (Moral impurity, indecent, filthiness, sinfulness.)

3. INORDINATE AFFECTION (Having desires for that which is not within the bounds of the Word of God, deviating from the rules.)

4. EVIL CONCUPISCENCE (To covet or lust after that which is carnal, having a desire for unlawful enjoyments, an irregular appetite for fleshly things.)

5. COVETOUSNESS (Earnestly desiring or greatly wishing for what others have.)

6. IDOLATRY (A worshipper of idols, one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands, one who worships as a deity that which is not God, a pagan.)

SINS WHICH THE CHRISTIAN MUST PUT OFF.

Colossians 3:8-9, "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"

1. ANGER (To provoke, to make painful, to rouse resentment.)

2. WRATH (Expression of violent anger.)

3. MALICE (To regard with extreme ill will.)

4. BLASPHEMY (To utter reproachful and irreverent terms about God.)

5. FILTHY COMMUNICATION (Foul language, corrupt conversation.)

6. LYING (Bearing false witness, telling that which is not true.)

SINS FOR WHICH THE LAW WAS GIVEN.

1 Timothy 1:9-10, "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;"

1. LAWLESS (Unrestrained by law, contrary to law; illegal; unauthorized)

2. DISOBEDIENT ( Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited;)

3. UNGODLY ( Wicked; impious; neglecting the fear and worship of God, or violating his commands, sinful; contrary to the Divine commands)

4. SINNERS (One that has voluntarily violated the Divine law; a moral agent who has voluntarily disobeyed any Divine precept, or neglected any known duty, an offender; a criminal)

5. UNHOLY (Not holy; not renewed and sanctified, profane; not hallowed; not consecrated; common, impious; wicked.)

6. PROFANE ( Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons. A man is profane when he takes the name of God in vain, or treats sacred things with abuse and irreverence.)

7. MURDERERS OF FATHERS (No concern or affection for parents, natural affection missing, no restraint of authority.)

8. MURDERERS OF MOTHERS (No concern or affection for parents, natural affection missing, no restraint of authority.)

9. MANSLAYERS (One who was guilty of accidental homicide, and was entitled to flee to a city of refuge)

10. WHOREMONGERS (The practice of unlawful relationships with women.)

11. THEM THAT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND (Defile, to make unclean; to render foul or dirty; in a general sense, to make impure; to tarnish; to pollute; to make ceremonially unclean.)

12. MENSTEALERS (To steal a human being, man, woman or child; or to seize and forcibly carry away any person whatever from his own country or state into another.)

13. LIARS (A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who declares to another as a fact what he knows to be not true, and with an intention to deceive him.)

14. PERJURED PERSONS (The act or crime of willfully making a false oath, when lawfully administered; or a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the issue.)

SINS FROM WHICH THE CHRISTIAN MUST TURN AWAY.

2 Timothy 3:1-5, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

1. LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES (Regarding one's own interest chiefly; influenced in actions by a view to private advantage.)

2. COVETOUS (One who covets or desires what others possess)

3. BOASTERS (One who boasts, glories in his own accomplishments, a bragger.)

4. PROUD (Possessing a high or unreasonable conceit of one's own excellence, either of body or mind. A man may be proud of his person, of his talents, of his accomplishments or of his achievements. He may be proud of any thing to which he bears some relation. He may be proud of his country, his government, his possessions, or of whatever may, by association, gratify his esteem of himself. He may even be proud of his religion or of his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this conception exalts his opinion of himself.)

5. BLASPHEMERS (One who speaks of God in impious and irreverent terms.)

6. DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS (Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; Not yielding to exciting force or power.)

7. UNTHANKFUL (Not making acknowledgments for good received.)

8. UNHOLY (Not holy; not renewed and sanctified, profane; not hallowed; not consecrated; common, impious; wicked.)

9. WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION (Without love or concern for that which is natural such as family, spouse, etc. A turning from that which God has put naturally in your heart to have affection for.)

10. TRUCEBREAKERS (One who fails to keep peace as agreed upon or as the Bible teaches.)

11. FALSE ACCUSERS (One who makes accusations against another that are not true, to tell lies upon.)

12. INCONTINENT (Not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging lust without restraint or in violation of law; unchaste; lewd.)

13. FIERCE (The primary sense of which is wild, running, rushing, violent; furious; savage; ravenous; easily enraged; outrageous; not to be restrained.)

14. DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD. (To have a low opinion of those who stand for the truth of the Word of God, to hate or work against those who live right and hold to the Bible.)