There are, generally speaking, three kinds of sin:
(1) Sins of weakness and/or ignorance, sometimes call venial sins: “He that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes” (Luke 12:48); “I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers” (Acts 3:17); “Death reigned . . . over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression” (Rom. 5:14); “The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me” (Rom. 7:19, 20); “ I did it ignorantly in unbelief” (1 Tim. 1:13); “There is a sin not unto death” (1 John 5:17).
(2) Sins that are fully wilful, sometimes called mortal sins: “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, . . . if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame” (Heb. 6:4, 6); “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins” (Heb. 10:26); “There is a sin unto death” (1 John 5:16).
(3) Sins partly of wilfulness and partly of weakness and/or ignorance, sometimes called mixed sins: “That servant which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did accordance to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes” (Luke 12:47); “Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man . . . And Peter remembered the word of Jesus . . . and he went out, and wept bitterly” (Matt. 26:74, 75).
(1) Sins of weakness and/or ignorance, sometimes call venial sins: “He that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes” (Luke 12:48); “I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers” (Acts 3:17); “Death reigned . . . over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression” (Rom. 5:14); “The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me” (Rom. 7:19, 20); “ I did it ignorantly in unbelief” (1 Tim. 1:13); “There is a sin not unto death” (1 John 5:17).
(2) Sins that are fully wilful, sometimes called mortal sins: “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, . . . if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame” (Heb. 6:4, 6); “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins” (Heb. 10:26); “There is a sin unto death” (1 John 5:16).
(3) Sins partly of wilfulness and partly of weakness and/or ignorance, sometimes called mixed sins: “That servant which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did accordance to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes” (Luke 12:47); “Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man . . . And Peter remembered the word of Jesus . . . and he went out, and wept bitterly” (Matt. 26:74, 75).
