small sin

I should join with none on earth; for a small sin may no more be wilfully done or owned than a greater.

In a word, (for I must not commit the fault which I am reproving,) account not a course of idle talk for a small sin.

No matter though the transgression be small; a small sin ruined the world.

To do this willfully, deliberately, in the chase after mere pleasure, is not a small sin.

Cæsar dislikes a massacre, not because it is a great sin, but because it is a small sin.