A volume might be written thereon, and still much be left unsaid. Only the One against whom it is committed can fully understand its nature or measure its enormity. And yet, from the light which God has furnished us, a partial answer at least can be gathered. It means that sin is a trampling upon God's holy commandment. It is an act of defiance against the Lawgiver.
All sin is a breach of the eternal standard of equity.
It is the bursting forth of that pride and the self-will which resents restraint, which repudiates control, which refuses to be under authority, which resists rule. And he is still plying the same argument and employing the same bait. Only by loving, fearing, and obeying the law, shall we be kept from sinning. Sin, then, is an inward state which precedes the evil deeds. It is a state of heart which refuses to be in subjection to God.