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  • Pharaoh and those who came before him, and the cities overthrown, were ones of iniquity; they rebelled against the Messenger of their Lord, so He took them with the mounting taking.†   (source)
  • The 1919 Chicago White Sox, who conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series (and are therefore known forever as the Black Sox), retain a stench of iniquity among even casual baseball fans.†   (source)
  • Americans mostly hear about the iniquities of garment factories, and they are real--the forced overtime, the sexual harassment, the dangerous conditions.†   (source)
  • Poverty and hard work had inflicted iniquitous damage on both.†   (source)
  • Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me ….†   (source)
  • "This doesn't seem quite your den of iniquity, lieutenant."†   (source)
  • I'm sure it's in your government report somewhere and will hardly satisfy. your iniquitous Senator McCarthy.†   (source)
  • It always seemed a most iniquitous scheme to me—[to] fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.†   (source)
  • Without asking his leave, I picked up the Bible and turned to a passage I knew well: "Bless the Lord, O my soul; And forget not all his benefits, Who forgives all your iniquity, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the Pit ….†   (source)
  • "Through all the ages," he said, "the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation-every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squadhave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection.†   (source)
  • The program, of course, was meant to be secret, like most of Hitler's squalid schemes, but such iniquity could scarcely be kept completely in the dark.†   (source)
  • He would even exaggerate them a little, mumbling to himself about the iniquities of his Service.†   (source)
  • Ah, whosoever failed to have this testimony should never see His face, but should be told, on that great day: "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity," and be hurled forever into the lake of fire prepared for Satan and all his angels.†   (source)
  • MORE Oh, this is iniquitous!†   (source)
  • Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought.   (source)
    iniquity = immoral or unjust acts
  • A blessing on the righteous colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine!   (source)
    iniquity = immorality
  • "Truly, friend; and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness," said the townsman, "to find yourself at length in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished in the sight of rulers and people, as here in our godly New England."   (source)
  • So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.   (source)
  • He had told his hearers that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity, and that the only wonder was that they did not see his wretched body shrivelled up before their eyes by the burning wrath of the Almighty!   (source)
  • The brash iniquity of the proposal tempted and amused the chaplain for a second or two.†   (source)
  • You call him iniquitous, I have other terms, but they're not pertinent here.†   (source)
  • 'You put so much stock in winning wars,' the grubby iniquitous old man scoffed.†   (source)
  • He began with a plea for the reform of mental asylums, too many of which remain the dens of squalor and iniquity they'd been in the last century.†   (source)
  • There certainly did not appear to be anything in the girl's personality that would be likely to develop into an embodiment of concentrated iniquity that McDermot tried to make her out to have been, if he ever uttered one half of the statements attributed to him in his confession.†   (source)
  • "What idea, my dear madame, can you form of the manners of a nation, one city of which furnishes (blush oh, my sex, when I name it) 52,000 unmarried females so lost to a sense of honor and shame as publicly to enroll their names in a notary office for the most abandoned purposes and to commit iniquity with impunity," she wrote in outrage to Mercy Warren.†   (source)
  • God, what an iniquitous world!†   (source)
  • He was the breaker of visions; the proposer of iniquities.†   (source)
  • …full of years and weak and incapable now of further harm, caught at last and the captains and the collectors saying, 'Old man, we don't want you' and Abraham would say, 'Praise the Lord, I have raised about me sons to bear the burden of mine iniquities and persecutions; yea, perhaps even to restore my flocks and herds from the hand of the ravisher: that I might rest mine eyes upon my goods and chattels, upon the generations of them and of my descendants increased an hundred fold as my…†   (source)
  • On one occasion, the iniquities in his see having been called to his notice, he almost did something about it.†   (source)
  • Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.†   (source)
  • He had grown old in minor iniquities, and could no longer inspire aversion or pity.†   (source)
  • My senses fail me amid such a chaos of iniquities.†   (source)
  • Wash away our iniquities.'†   (source)
  • Lily, therefore, had not only contrived to put herself in the young man's way, but had made the acquaintance of Mrs. Gryce, a monumental woman with the voice of a pulpit orator and a mind preoccupied with the iniquities of her servants, who came sometimes to sit with Mrs. Peniston and learn from that lady how she managed to prevent the kitchen-maid's smuggling groceries out of the house.†   (source)
  • Not "Forgive us our sins," but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.†   (source)
  • " 'A's a stammering man, mem," said Henery Fray in an undertone, "and they turned him away because the only time he ever did speak plain he said his soul was his own, and other iniquities, to the squire.†   (source)
  • Remember Thy bounteous mercy and loving-kindness which are from of old; turn not Thy face from us, but be gracious to our unworthiness, and in Thy great goodness and Thy many mercies regard not our transgressions and iniquities!†   (source)
  • But you, madame, so beautiful in reality, you, so pure in appearance, must have committed great iniquities for Lord de Winter to pursue you thus.†   (source)
  • An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred.†   (source)
  • The reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for all the crimes committed on earth.†   (source)
  • All England is tired of your iniquities; my Lord, you have abused the royal power, which you have almost usurped; my Lord, you are held in horror by God and men.†   (source)
  • They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in order therein to embattle themselves and to combat.†   (source)
  • …daylight, everything on the exterior; the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the unhappy, and the infamous, all…†   (source)
  • The woman architect shrieked briefly something about the iniquity of the rich.†   (source)
  • And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.†   (source)
  • Who knew, perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.†   (source)
  • But simultaneously, she remembered how he had brought a valet all the way up here; objected to dogs on chairs; would prose for hours (until Mr. Ramsay slammed out of the room) about salt in vegetables and the iniquity of English cooks.†   (source)
  • After all, he was a representative of the British government, if nothing else; it was iniquitous that the inmates of a Tibetan monastery should refuse him any proper request…… That, no doubt, was the normal official view that would be taken; and part of Conway was both normal and official.†   (source)
  • This, I did not need telling, was Anthony Blanche, the "aesthete" par excellence, a byword of iniquity from Cherwell Edge to Somerville.†   (source)
  • But old Mr. Sandeen, who was the father of one of the dead kids, saw him back in the crowd and while the clods were still bouncing off the coffin lids Mr. Sandeen pushed back to him and grabbed him by the hand and lifted up one arm above his head and said, loud, "Oh, God, I am punished for accepting iniquity and voting against an honest man!"†   (source)
  • When I think of that imposition, that iniquitous over-charge, the same fare single to Charlock as return, my blood boils to protect the visitor!†   (source)
  • This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.†   (source)
  • The chapters of the so-called Negative Confession declare the moral purity of the man who has been redeemed: "I have not done iniquity….†   (source)
  • She remembered that iniquity of his wife's towards him, which had made her turn to steel and adamant there, in the horrible little room in St John's Wood, when with her own eyes she had seen that odious woman turn him out of the house.†   (source)
  • Speaking with warmth and eloquence, she described the iniquity of the English dairy system, and in what state milk was delivered at the door, and was about to prove her charges, for she had gone into the matter, when all round the table, beginning with Andrew in the middle, like a fire leaping from tuft to tuft of furze, her children laughed; her husband laughed; she was laughed at, fire— encircled, and forced to veil her crest, dismount her batteries, and only retaliate by displaying…†   (source)
  • Is it because they somewhat savor of Holy Writ in its phrase "mysteries of iniquity"?†   (source)
  • 'Then shall the man be guiltless; but the woman shall bear her iniquity.'†   (source)
  • "But I don't see that!" exclaimed Minnie Beebe who had narrowly watched the iniquitous transaction.†   (source)
  • Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.†   (source)
  • Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, came the reflection—What a horrible rubbish-heap of iniquity to fumble in!†   (source)
  • "Pray, what iniquity has turned up now?" said he.†   (source)
  • I received letters from the City of Iniquity, addressed to me under an assumed name.†   (source)
  • Then war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime.†   (source)
  • For the passion for this pastime had so taken hold of late that the whole place was a den of iniquity; and Hans Castorp had all the more reason to feel gripped by horror, because he fell victim to the plague himself for a while—was indeed perhaps one of the most serious cases.†   (source)
  • He had felt a subtle, dark, and murmurous presence penetrate his being and fire him with a brief iniquitous lust: it, too, had slipped beyond his grasp leaving his mind lucid and indifferent.†   (source)
  • That may have been partly because they regarded Europe as a sink of iniquity, where strange laxities prevailed.†   (source)
  • Wherefore make unto yourselves friends out of the mammon of iniquity so that when you die they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.†   (source)
  • It was a sink of iniquity.†   (source)
  • And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.†   (source)
  • I could have screamed aloud; I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me; and still, between the petitions, the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my soul.†   (source)
  • Ay, there is a mystery; but, to use a Scriptural phrase, it is 'a mystery of iniquity,' a matter for psychologic theologians to discuss.†   (source)
  • The butcher who was not sending meat to the vicarage constantly threatened not to come to church, and the Vicar was sometimes obliged to make a threat: it was very wrong of him not to come to church, but if he carried iniquity further and actually went to chapel, then of course, excellent as his meat was, Mr. Carey would be forced to leave him for ever.†   (source)
  • Now Billy like sundry other essentially good-natured ones had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.†   (source)
  • …as she now contended, if only some powerful and righteous emissary of God would visit Clyde and through the force of his faith and God's word make him see—which she was sure he did not yet, and which she in her troubled state, and because she was his mother, could not make him,—the blackness and terror of his sin with Robertar as it related to his immortal soul here and hereafter,—then in gratitude to, reverence and faith in God, would be washed away, all his iniquity, would it not?†   (source)
  • However iniquitous or absurd the evil of which you complain may be, you must submit to it as well as you can.†   (source)
  • Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.†   (source)
  • On its surface they can still exercise their iniquitous claims, battle each other, devour each other, haul every earthly horror.†   (source)
  • Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out!†   (source)
  • Can that creature who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be consciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?†   (source)
  • The Americans know not this iniquitous division of duties and rights; amongst them the seducer is as much dishonored as his victim.†   (source)
  • He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous.†   (source)
  • And behold, He deigned to appear for a moment to the people, to the tortured, suffering people, sunk in iniquity, but loving Him like children.†   (source)
  • commit such an iniquity   (source)
  • "It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.†   (source)
  • But if, by means of charms and of spells, Satan had obtained dominion over the Knight, perchance because he cast his eyes too lightly upon a damsel's beauty, we are then rather to lament than chastise his backsliding; and, imposing on him only such penance as may purify him from his iniquity, we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well-nigh occasioned his utter falling away.†   (source)
  • When my brother William spent his last evening with me, before he went to California, we talked nearly all the time of the distress brought on our oppressed people by the passage of this iniquitous law; and never had I seen him manifest such bitterness of spirit, such stern hostility to our oppressors.†   (source)
  • "We ought to feel full o' thanksgiving that he's not a player of ba'dy songs instead of these merry tunes; for 'twould have been just as easy for God to have made the shepherd a loose low man—a man of iniquity, so to speak it—as what he is.†   (source)
  • —"And now," pursued the Grand Master, "since our Brother of Goodalricke's question has been thus imperfectly answered, pursue we our quest, brethren, and with our patron's assistance, we will search to the bottom this mystery of iniquity.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXI The Middle Passage "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?†   (source)
  • He sat there for some time without heeding them; his attention was lost in the irritation and bitterness produced by his recent glimpse of Miss Noemie's iniquitous vitality.†   (source)
  • They affected to open their ranks to the slaves, but the negroes who attempted to penetrate into the community were driven back with scorn; and they have incautiously and involuntarily been led to admit of freedom instead of slavery, without having the courage to be wholly iniquitous, or wholly just.†   (source)
  • Do you believe, then, that at the day of the Last Judgment God will separate blind executioners from iniquitous judges?†   (source)
  • Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.†   (source)
  • In his youth, in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite recently again, he had beheld another,— a frightful place, a terrible place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of justice, and the crime of the law.†   (source)
  • Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one…†   (source)
  • Turning now to the opposite characters of Commodus, Severus, Antoninus Caracalla, and Maximinus, you will find them all cruel and rapacious-men who, to satisfy their soldiers, did not hesitate to commit every kind of iniquity against the people; and all, except Severus, came to a bad end; but in Severus there was so much valour that, keeping the soldiers friendly, although the people were oppressed by him, he reigned successfully; for his valour made him so much admired in the sight of…†   (source)
  • Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity?   (source)
    iniquity = injustice (an immoral or unjust act)
  • 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.†   (source)
  • 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.†   (source)
  • 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?†   (source)
  • 130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.†   (source)
  • "the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all:" And so he is the Scape Goat.†   (source)
  • 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.†   (source)
  • 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.†   (source)
  • 130:3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?†   (source)
  • 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.†   (source)
  • 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.†   (source)
  • 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.†   (source)
  • Thus will this latter, as the former world, Still tend from bad to worse; till God at last, Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw His presence from among them, and avert His holy eyes; resolving from thenceforth To leave them to their own polluted ways; And one peculiar nation to select From all the rest, of whom to be invoked, A nation from one faithful man to spring: Him on this side Euphrates yet residing, Bred up in idol-worship: O, that men (Canst thou believe?†   (source)
  • 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.†   (source)
  • He set forth, in a long speech, the many iniquities of which Jones had been guilty, particularly those which this day had brought to light; and concluded by telling him, "That unless he could clear himself of the charge, he was resolved to banish him his sight for ever."†   (source)
  • His Office As A Redeemer To the Office of a Redeemer, that is, of one that payeth the Ransome of Sin, (which Ransome is Death,) it appertaineth, that he was Sacrificed, and thereby bare upon his own head, and carryed away from us our iniquities, in such sort as God had required.†   (source)
  • …wonder that servants (I mean among the men only) should have so great regard for the reputation of the wealth of their masters, and little or none at all for their character in other points, and that, though they would be ashamed to be the footman of a beggar, they are not so to attend upon a rogue or a blockhead; and do consequently make no scruple to spread the fame of the iniquities and follies of their said masters as far as possible, and this often with great humour and merriment.†   (source)
  • 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.†   (source)
  • …for himself and the Priests a young Bullock; and for the rest of the people, he was to receive from them two young Goates, of which he was to Sacrifice one; but as for the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities of the people.†   (source)
  • But as the world, I know not well for what reason, agree to see this treachery in a better light, he was so far from being ashamed of his iniquities of this kind, that he gloried in them, and would often boast of his skill in gaining of women, and his triumphs over their hearts, for which he had before this time received some rebukes from Jones, who always exprest great bitterness against any misbehaviour to the fair part of the species, who, if considered, he said, as they ought to…†   (source)
  • 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.†   (source)
  • 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.†   (source)
  • 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.†   (source)
  • 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.†   (source)
  • ] Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity, I moralize two meanings in one word.†   (source)
  • O Soudaness*, root of iniquity, *Sultaness Virago thou, Semiramis the second!†   (source)
  • 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.†   (source)
  • 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.†   (source)
  • 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.†   (source)
  • 21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.†   (source)
  • Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.†   (source)
  • 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.†   (source)
  • 5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.†   (source)
  • 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.†   (source)
  • 31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.†   (source)
  • 36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?†   (source)
  • 34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.†   (source)
  • 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.†   (source)
  • 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?†   (source)
  • 6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.†   (source)
  • 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.†   (source)
  • 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.†   (source)
  • 34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.†   (source)
  • 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.†   (source)
  • 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.†   (source)
  • 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.†   (source)
  • 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?†   (source)
  • 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.†   (source)
  • 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.†   (source)
  • 69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.†   (source)
  • 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.†   (source)
  • 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?†   (source)
  • 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.†   (source)
  • I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.†   (source)
  • 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?†   (source)
  • 20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.†   (source)
  • 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.†   (source)
  • 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin.†   (source)
  • 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.†   (source)
  • 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.†   (source)
  • 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.†   (source)
  • Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.†   (source)
  • 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.†   (source)
  • 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.†   (source)
  • 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.†   (source)
  • 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.†   (source)
  • 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.†   (source)
  • 32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid.†   (source)
  • 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.†   (source)
  • 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.†   (source)
  • 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.†   (source)
  • 25:11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.†   (source)
  • 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.†   (source)
  • The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity,—stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.†   (source)
  • He replied that he meant to go in search of this clown and chastise him for such iniquitous conduct, and see Andres paid to the last maravedi, despite and in the teeth of all the clowns in the world.†   (source)
  • Though in the trade of war I have slain men, Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contriv'd murder: I lack iniquity Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.†   (source)
  • These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.†   (source)
  • 28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.†   (source)
  • Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.†   (source)
  • Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?†   (source)
  • 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.†   (source)
  • I had, it seems, one day, been talking to him of the omnipotent power of God, and his infinite abhorrence of sin, insomuch that the Scriptures styled him a consuming fire to all the workers of iniquity; and that it was in his power, whenever he pleased, to destroy all the world in a moment, the greater part of which are continually offending him.†   (source)
  • Yes, brother, I'm wicked and culpable, A sorry sinner, full of iniquity, As great a wretch as there ever could be.†   (source)
  • It not only serves to moderate the immediate mischiefs of those which may have been passed, but it operates as a check upon the legislative body in passing them; who, perceiving that obstacles to the success of iniquitous intention are to be expected from the scruples of the courts, are in a manner compelled, by the very motives of the injustice they meditate, to qualify their attempts.†   (source)
  • 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.†   (source)
  • It is true that they that have Soveraigne power, may commit Iniquity; but not Injustice, or Injury in the proper signification.†   (source)
  • 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.†   (source)
  • If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.†   (source)
  • God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.†   (source)
  • …near him with such rage and fierceness that if we had not dragged him off him, he would have beaten or bitten him to death, all the while exclaiming, 'Oh faithless Fernando, here, here shalt thou pay the penalty of the wrong thou hast done me; these hands shall tear out that heart of thine, abode and dwelling of all iniquity, but of deceit and fraud above all; and to these he added other words all in effect upbraiding this Fernando and charging him with treachery and faithlessness.†   (source)
  • The half-yearly representatives of Rhode Island would probably have been little affected in their deliberations on the iniquitous measures of that State, by arguments drawn from the light in which such measures would be viewed by foreign nations, or even by the sister States; whilst it can scarcely be doubted that if the concurrence of a select and stable body had been necessary, a regard to national character alone would have prevented the calamities under which that misguided people…†   (source)
  • But right anon a thousand people *in thrast* *rushed in* To save the knight, for ruth and for pity For knowen was the false iniquity.†   (source)
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