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carnal sin

noun as in capital sin

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Avarice, arrogance, sleaze, fraud, carnal sin.

As if arrogance, avarice, sleaze, fraud and carnal sin were not enough for the industry, various televangelists are being charged with sloppy doctrine by fellow Bible Belters.

And in Second Corinthians 7, 1, he makes the same classification of spiritual and carnal sin, saying, "Let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit."

Bishop, write down: Absolution for each nun who shall commit carnal sin, be it with whom it may, within or out of the circle of the cloister; with p. 246fall capacity of assuming any conventual dignity when called upon so to do: nine ducats.

The medieval Christians saw in childbirth the result of a carnal sin to be expiated in pain as defined in Genesis.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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