day no. 15,090: inequity in iniquity

Q: Are all sins equal? Yes and No

All sins are equally sufficient to demand God's wrath. 

James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 

Any sin is good enough to disqualify someone from perfection and if the goal is perfection, any sin, regardless of category or intensity requires a verdict of "guilty."

But not all require equal amounts of wrath.

Imagine taking an exam. If you miss any of the 100 questions, you cannot obtain 100%. But imagine the questions are not weighted equally. The true/false section were 10 and worth 1 point each, but the essay section contained 3 questions each worth 10 points. To miss a true/false question will cost you 1 point, but to botch an essay will cost you 10. Missing either would prevent you from reaching perfection, but missing particular ones would determine how far from perfect you ended up being.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 

Any sin may be weighted differently without being unequal in its ability to prevent anyone from being justified by works.