What is the difference between trespasses and sins?

Question

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; - Ephesians 2:1 KJV.

Answer 1

Trespasses are done to other people. Sin is done against yourself. The two can and do sometimes overlap.

Answer 2

Trespass refers to the act of committing a sin

Answer 3

Here's a bombshell - "sin" actually means "true"! From the Proto-Germanic sundjo, "sin, transgression, trespass, offense;" probably ultimately from the Gothic sonjis, "true." The idea is that "the guilty man is the man who it was," as Curtius says.

To "trespass," meanwhile, means literally "to go across." It's the idea that you've overstepped your bounds.

As used in Biblical translation, they're more or less synonyms.

Answer 4

trespasses = paraptoma meaning: a million) to fall beside or close to a minimum of something 2) a lapse or deviation from certainty and uprightness a) a sin, misdeed Sins = hamartia meaning: a million) similar to 264 a) to be and not employing a proportion in b) to pass over the mark c) to err, be flawed d) to pass over or wander from the path of uprightness and honour, to do or bypass incorrect e) to wander from the regulation of God, violate God's regulation, sin 2) that it fairly is completed incorrect, sin, an offence, a contravention of the divine regulation in theory or in act 3) at the same time, the complicated or mixture of sins committed the two by using a unmarried individual or by using many so as that they are type of synonymous

Answer 5

Trespass:

Definitions of trespass on the Web:

Enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!"

Make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"

Sin:

Sin, in it's literal definition, originally meant "to miss the mark," as in archery. A better definition would be to say "stray from the path."

Religious texts have changed the modern meaning....but it is only relevant to proponents of faith.

Answer 6

Trespass usually pertains to land issues, or privacy issues..
A sin is something that only a Christian can commit, which can range from child molestation to murder, of which there are many court cases world-wide to my first suggestion..
Blessed Be.. )O(