Miss the Mark is a Hebrew idiom meaning to sin.

1 Timothy 1:5. But the goal of the command is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and sincere faith, 6. from which, when some Missed the Mark they turned away to fruitless talk 7. wanting to be teachers of Torah (Teaching), although they understood neither what they were saying nor about what they were confidently insisting.

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