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transgression
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? / Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.»
«He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.»
Author: Bible
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transgression
«He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.»
Author: Bible
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transgression
«For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.»
«He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.»
«If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; / If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; / Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.»
«For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: / Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.»
«For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; / How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; / God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? / For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.»
Author: Bible
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bearing, confirmed, disobedience, diver, divers, ghost, Holy Ghost, neglect, put in, signs and wonders, subjection, The Angels, the world to come, transgression, whereof, wonders
«He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.»
Author: The Talmud
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accuser, accusers, advocate, calamity, commits, repentance, transgression