sinner
IPA: sˈɪnɝ
noun
- A person who sins or has sinned.
- A person who, by one particular action, has sinned.
- (Christianity, doctrinal) An unregenerate person.
- (figuratively, by extension) A person with negative qualities; one who does bad things.
- One who lives a hedonist life; a self-indulgent person.
- A surname.
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Examples of "sinner" in Sentences
- Love the sinner, hate the sin.
- You should forgive the sinner.
- The charcoal represents the sinners.
- He requested unceasingly for all the sinners.
- He tried to pervert the judgment of a sinner.
- I was taught to hate the sin and not the sinner.
- The case of the habitual sinner is more complex.
- Deplore the sins, but love the sinners, so to speak.
- He is an unrepentant sinner leading the church astray.
- However, nothing in the Bible says that the sinner was a prostitute.
- The grace of God in calling a sinner is a powerful engagement to holiness.
- “He would be what we call a sinner and he needs to make a change in his life.”
- God's goodness realized by the sinner is the only thing that leads to true repentance (Ho 3: 5; Lu 7: 37, 38).
- Interestingly, in Jewish society today, the job title tax collector has become synonymous with the word sinner!
- English narrator, who was, as he told the missionary, "what you call a sinner, what I call a sweep," but repented in time.
- You see a sinner is always a sinner and in danger of damnation, for which there is but one cure, but a sick man may have quinsy or he may have diphtheria, and the treatment is different.
- S. Augustine says [244]: "If God did not hear sinners, in vain would the publican have said, _God be merciful to me a sinner_"; and S. Chrysostom says [245]: "_Every one that asketh receiveth_ -- that is, whether he be just man or sinner."
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