Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), Westminster Assembly

Question 24

What is sin?

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, any law of God, given as a rule to the reasonable creature.^a

What is sin?

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, any law of God, given as a rule to the reasonable creature.^a

a. 1 John 3:4; Galatians 3:10, 12
1 John 3:4
^3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
^3:4 Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:12
^3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. ^3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
^3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." ^3:12 The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them."
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Related (2)

The Baptist Catechism (1695), parallel to this question

Question 17

What is sin?

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

Question 14

What is sin?

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

Commentaries (9)

Joseph Alleine, 1672, A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is Sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God.
Joseph Alleine’s text
Thomas Lye, 1672, The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is sin? Sin is as any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God.
Thomas Lye’s text
Thomas Vincent, 1673, An Explicatory Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is Sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God.
Thomas Vincent’s text
1675, An Explicatory Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is Sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God.
Its text
John Flavel, 1692, An Exposition of the Assembly’s Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is Sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the law of God.
John Flavel’s text
Thomas Watson, 1692, A Body of Practical Divinity
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
Quest. X. What is Sin? Answ. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God. 1 John 3.4. Sin is a Transgression of the Law. Of Sin in general. 1\. Sin is 〈…
Thomas Watson’s text
Matthew Henry, 1703, A Scripture Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
What is Sin? Sin is any want of Conformity unto, or Transgression of, the Law of God.
Matthew Henry’s text
Benjamin Beddome, 1752, A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism
On The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 17, parallel to this question
Doth sin suppose a law? Yes. For where no law is there is no transgression, Doth the law of God extend to our thoughts? Yes. He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her…
Benjamin Beddome’s text
Alexander Whyte, 1883, A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 14, parallel to this question
Sin—Wickedness, iniquity, crime. Skeat follows Curtius in tracing the root to a Teutonic base, A.S. to be. “Language regards the guilty man as the man who it was.” Cf. Gen. iii.…
Alexander Whyte’s text