and would persist in heinous sinning

and persisted in the worst of sin.

but they persisted in the greatest offenses against God,

wakānū yuṣirrūna ʿalā l-ḥinthi l-ʿaẓīm

And were persisting in the sin the great,

and would persist in heinous sinning

And used to persist in the awful sin

And persisted obstinately in wickedness supreme

and persisted in the worst of sin.

but they persisted in the greatest offenses against God,

and they persisted obstinately in awful sin

And they persisted in the great violation

and they had been persisting in tremendous wickedness.

and persisted in awesome blasphemy,

and were persisting in great sin

would persist in great sin

And they used to insist on extreme sin

They persisted in heinous sin

And they used to persist in immense wrongdoing

And they used to persist in the monstrous vileness

and persisted in heinous sins

and used to persist in major sins

And stubbornly persisted in their violations

And persisted in the greatest of sins

And willfully continued in the worst wickedness

And they used to persist in the great violation

And they persisted in the great blasphemy

and persisted in great sin

And they have been persisting in the heinous offence

But persisted in that greater sin

persisting in immense wrongdoing

And would persist in committing the greatest sin (of unbelief or associating partners with God and denying the afterlife)

and they used to persist in the great sin

And they persisted in the great violation (or great sin)

and they insisted on the great sin

And insisted on great harm

and kept committing the grave sin of idolatry.

and had persisted in the Great Sin

And they persisted in the great oathbreaking.

And they had persisted in the Great Retractio

Verily before this, they were at ease.

They insisted on the great blasphemy.

and persisted in the great si

And they persisted in the great violation

And they were persisting/insisting on the sin the great

[but instead of being grateful to God,] engaged constantly in great sins

And were stubborn upon the great sin (of disbelief)

And persisted in extreme sinfulness

And obstinately persisted in great sin (of denying Allah and setting up partners with Him)

But (they) persisted in extreme sinfulness

And were persisting in great sin (joining partners in worship along with Allah, committing murders and other crimes, etc.

and persisted in the Great Sin

and obstinately persisted in a heinous wickedness

and did persist in mighty crime

But persisted in heinous sin

and persisted in the heinous sin², saying

They persisted in terrible sin.

and persisted in awesome blasphemy,

They used to persist in committing that great offence (denying their essential reality and its experience).

and they used to persist in great sin,

How obstinate they were in adhering to their own evil course of denying Allah

And persisted obstinately in wickedness supreme

And were persisting in the sin the great