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  2. Hamartia - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew (chatá) and its Greek equivalent (àμaρtίa/hamartia) both mean "missing the mark" or "off the mark". [23] [24] [25] There are four basic usages for hamartia: Hamartia is sometimes used to mean acts of sin "by omission or commission in thought and feeling or in speech and actions" as in Romans 5:12, "all have sinned". [26]

  3. Matthew 5:13 - Wikipedia

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    The verse is paralleled in Mark 9:50; [5] Luke 14:34–35 also has a version of this text similar to the one in Mark. [6] There are a wide number of references to salt in the Old Testament. Leviticus 2:13, [7] Numbers 18:19, [8] and 2 Chronicles 13:5 [9] all present salt as a sign of God's covenant.

  4. Sin - Wikipedia

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    According to the classical definition of St. Augustine of Hippo sin is "a word, deed, or desire in opposition to the eternal law of God." [12] [13] Thus, sin requires redemption, a metaphor alluding to atonement, in which the death of Jesus is the price that is paid to release the faithful from the bondage of sin. [14]

  5. Sayings of Jesus on the cross - Wikipedia

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    This statement is traditionally called "The Word of Relationship" and in it Jesus entrusts Mary, his mother, into the care of "the disciple whom Jesus loved". [1] Jesus also addresses his mother as "woman" in John 2:4. [23] Although this sounds dismissive in English, the Greek word is a term of respect or tenderness.

  6. Gospel of Thomas - Wikipedia

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    Another saying that employs similar vocabulary to that used in Luke rather than Mark is saying 31 in the original Greek (Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1), where Luke 4:24's term dektos (' acceptable ') [75] is employed rather than Mark 6:4's atimos (' without honor '). [76] The word dektos (in all its cases and genders) is clearly typical of Luke, since ...

  7. Matthew 5:27–28 - Wikipedia

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    Augustine: For there are three things which make up a sin; suggestion either through the memory, or the present sense; if the thought of the pleasure of indulgence follows, that is an unlawful thought, and to be restrained; if you consent then, the sin is complete. For prior to the first consent, the pleasure is either none or very slight, the ...

  8. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

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    In one of his definitions of sin Thomas quotes Augustine of Hippo's description of sin as "a thought, words and deed against the Eternal Law."' [39] Now there are two rules of the human will: one is proximate and homogeneous, viz. the human reason; the other is the first rule, viz. the eternal law, which is God's reason, so to speak (quasi ...

  9. Category:Greek words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title). Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.