The entry
Sin
Peak emphasis
1888
Total mentions
18,772
Years observed
1828 – 2026
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Moments of emphasis shift
Years when this word’s usage moved sharply against the decade around it.
- 1888
▲ Sharper emphasis2384 per million words
- 1911
▲ Sharper emphasis952 per million words
- 1918
▲ Sharper emphasis4194 per million words
- 1962
▲ Sharper emphasis806 per million words
- 1982
▲ Sharper emphasis1019 per million words
- 2010
▲ Sharper emphasis957 per million words
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The Spoken Word
Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.
1852·Brigham Young·Prophet
Let us apply it directly to ourselves, who have received the truth, and tasted of the good word of God. Let me turn around with you and reject it, and teach our children that it is an untruth, teach the same to our neighbors, and that it is a burlesque to our senses; let us deny the Lord that bought us, what would be the result? Our children would grow up in unbelief, and the sin would rest upon our heads. Suppose we are faithful, and the people will not believe our testimony, we shall receive our reward, the same as though they did believe it.
1881·Joseph F. Smith·Apostle
Then there is the banishment of the transgressor, (not the sons of perdition) into the prison house, a place of punishment, with no exaltation, no increase, no dominion, no power whose inhabitants after their redemption may become servants of them that have obeyed the laws of God and kept the faith. That will be the punishment of such as reject the truth, but sin not unto death.
1942·Albert E. Bowen·Apostle
During the troubled years of his presidency, Lincoln many times by proclamation set apart days for prayer and supplication for divine favor. He never omitted from those proclamations the admonition to pray for forgiveness of our national sins as a condition to the reception of God's help.
1949·Spencer W. Kimball·Apostle
So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
1963·Delbert L. Stapley·Apostle
We cannot afford, as children of God, in whose presence we someday hope to be, to toss overboard the God-given principles of morality and make our bodies instruments of unrighteousness by yielding to the gratification of bodily desires. God will not hold guiltless those who succumb to such sins and forsake his laws and also abdicate responsibility to loved ones.
1977·Marion G. Romney·Apostle
“Believe and repent of your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, … and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost, … and if ye do not this, the floods will come in upon you; nevertheless they hearkened not. …
