The two times the word hamartia appears in 2 Corinthians it is in that great passage talking about the great transaction that occurred on the cross. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (5:21). Christ knew no …
Enough Troubles
Hamartano is used a number of times in 1 Corinthians, but hamartia doesn’t come up until chapter 15. Paul first tells believers to flee from fornication because every other sin is outside the body, while sexual sin is a sin against one’s own body (6:18). But to marry is not to commit a sin (v. …
A Bountiful Eye
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 138 “He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor” (Prov. 22:9). The duty of almsgiving is assumed in this text, and it is reinforced with the promise of blessing for …
Our Bodies as Sinstruments
Sin is one of the great themes of Romans. The word hamartia occurs 48 times in this book. Jews and Gentiles are both of them under sin, which Paul has proven (3:9). No one shall be justified by the deeds of the law because the law brings knowledge of sin (3:20). This being the case, …
Restoring From Within
We are still in the season of the resurrection, and we would do well to continue to focus our hearts on the meaning of life from the dead. The fact that Jesus was raised in the middle of human history, and not at the very end of it, means that God has not abandoned this …
Sin Came Before the Jews Did
It is not surprising that the book of Romans, the book that shows the revelation of God’s righteousness, does so against the backdrop of man’s sinfulness. There are so many uses of the words we have been considering that we will have to divide our treatment of this book in two, with the first installment …
A Mysterious Absence
The word hamartano is used once by Luke in Acts, where it is rendered as offend (Acts 25:8). The apostle Paul was defending himself against Festus, and says that he has not offended in any way — whether against the law of the Jews, or against the temple, or against Caesar. He was not standing …
Down Hill
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 137 “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender” (Prov. 22:7). And things fall down when you drop them. This proverb is simply an observation on the way things are. We do not here …
Sin and Sins
The Johannine use of hamartano and hamartia is straightforward. After Jesus had healed the lame man at Bethesda, He told him to go and sin no more (hamartano), lest a worse fate befall him (5:14). He does something similar, but with a very different tone, with the woman caught in the act of adultery (8:11). …
Sin in Luke
The word hamartano is found in two sections of Luke, used twice in each place. The first is where it is rendered as sin (Luke 15:18,21), and in the second as trespass. The first place is where the prodigal son confesses to his father that he has sinned. In the second passage, Jesus says that …