Difference between Overstep and Transgress

OVERSTEP vs TRANSGRESS: VERB

Be superior or better than some standard
To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
Go beyond
Pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

To offend against the law; to sin.
To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
To commit an offense by violating a law, principle, or duty.
To act in violation of (the law, for example).
To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep.

To offend against; to vex.
Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the �imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

To pass over or beyond; go beyond.
Hence To overpass, as some law or rule prescribed; break or violate; infringe.
To offend against (a person); disobey; thwart; cross; vex.
Synonyms Infringe upon, Encroach upon, etc. (see trespass, v. i.), pass, transcend, overstep, contravene.
To offend by violating a law; sin.
Violate a law of God or a moral law
Commit a sin

Cross, Turn, Overtake, Override, Outstrip, Presume, Surpass, Overrule, Go past, Top, Pass, Trespass, Transcend, Exceed, Transgress

Abide, Blaspheme, Disobey, Flout, Err, Infringe, Contravene, Infract, Go against, Break, Trespass, Breach, Offend, Violate, Overstep

Switch, Cross, Turn, Overtake, Outstrip, Presume, Surpass, Overrule, Go past, Top, Pass, Trespass, Transcend, Exceed, Transgress

Desecrate, Forbid, Abide, Blaspheme, Disobey, Flout, Infringe, Contravene, Go against, Break, Trespass, Breach, Offend, Violate, Overstep

Silkoreceives courage to transgress propriety and write explicit sexual scenes.
The enhanced sentencing statute did not transgress this rule.
With biting sarcasm he invited the people to transgress.
Reactions to transaction that transgress the spheres of justice.
One cannot be transgress something they did not know.
What does it mean to transgress boundaries of affect?
God, and not transgress the laws of Moses.
Not wait until they transgress and fine them.
What does it mean to transgress gender rules?
Although we might feel inclined to transgress on these points, providing they do not cause us to transgress God's Word, we should obey them.