“And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat:
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
“
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but
I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh
the law of sin.”
Romans 7:21-23, 25 KJV
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
Genesis 4:
“But
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law
sin was dead.
For
I was alive without the law once:
but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And
the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
For
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
Romans 7:8-11 KJV
Early the Bible speaks of sin like with cain there as an entity active against man crouching in wait desiring to overcome man and enslave him
when the law comes it is defined in detailed actions it’s referred to as an action
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
1 John 3:4 KJV
later it’s described as a law that has rooted within mankinds members in our body of flesh like there in Roman’s
“bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. “
and even at other points we’re told out the circumstances vision of Chiat who’s removing our sins as in those offenses on record and that law within us and th at entity that pursues and seeks to kill us all aspect of sin can be overcome through Christ
But the Bible speaks of it many ways like it’s an entity or spirit , an enemy working against us , a law of corruption within us , a slave master at other points it’s described as , certain death also comes from it it’s also described as actions we participate in and perpetrate and commit
But my point is there’s a lot of different answers to the general question “what is sin ?” As there usually a lot of details to most any general question asked