Impurity is the defilement produced by transgression.

• A. Defilement
• B. Purity
• C. Restoration
• D. Impurity

Answer: (A)

This item tests how the terms describing sin-related uncleanliness relate to each other. Impurity denotes the unclean condition that results from transgression. The word that best describes impurity in this sense is defilement, because defilement is the state of being made unclean by wrongdoing. It captures the effect produced by transgression, which is exactly what impurity represents.

Consider the other concepts: purity is the opposite of impurity, signaling cleanliness and holiness rather than the consequence of sin. Restoration refers to being cleansed or brought back to a right state, not the initial unclean condition itself. Using impurity to fill the blank would be circular, naming the same idea rather than expressing the effect produced by transgression.