iniquity

• And then the system of taxes according to the income; it's an iniquity--the hypocrisy of communism. —  Renée Mauperin
• So shall you come to the door of deliverance from the prison of iniquity, and escape the clutches of that old executioner the devil Jonathan Wild, whose name has been immortalised by Fielding, was no favourite with the people. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• Ere men take with their own iniquity, they will charge God that gave no more grace, but if men knew themselves, they would deduce their corruption and destruction both from one fountain, that is, from themselves. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• If we had dried up the fountain, the streams had ceased, but we did only dam it up, and cut off some streams for a season; we set up our resolutions and purposes as an hedge to hold it in, but the sea of the heart’s iniquity, that is above all things, hath overflowed it, and defiled our way more than in former times. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• If ye hide not your iniquity, then it shall be hid indeed, here is a covering that shall hide it from his eyes. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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