Not merely our separate acts, but our moral bias, the bent of our nature, constitutes a real part of the sin of man. But this also needs rounding out with other truths in order to render it acceptable as a definition of sin. 1. In the Old and New Testaments alike, sin is thought of chiefly as a breach or rupture of relations between the sinner and the personal God. We look briefly at the Old Testament teaching. Sin manifests itself in many ways, but the ruling thought in them all is the departure