live in sin

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Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, floor manager for the tax bill, poked fun at the plan, claimed somewhat irrelevantly that it would help couples who live in sin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aside from loud claims that the law forced Government employes to live in sin; feminists ardently opposed it because 50% of those dismissed on Section 213 were women.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tinker angry sat, nor asked the man within; Said, "Emma read her Book, and did not live in sin."

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

The believer will thus reason and conclude,—shall I any more delight and live in sin, since I am dead unto it by Jesus Christ?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

I have heard Mr Bagnall speak of this doctrine, which he said was shocking and wicked, for it gave men licence to live in sin.

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah