ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō (G0264)
to sin
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The Greek word ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō) is defined as "to sin." It appears 43 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in biblical teachings. The meaning of hamartanō is straightforward, referring to an act of disobedience or non-compliance with a standard or moral expectation. Its range of usage is diverse, encompassing both individual and collective actions, as well as intentional and unintentional transgressions. The frequency of hamartanō in the Bible suggests that the concept of sin is a fundamental aspect of the biblical message. The word's consistent presence throughout the text underscores the gravity and ubiquity of sin, serving as a foundation for discussions of human nature, morality, and redemption.
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“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.