For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.

A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.

So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.

But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.

“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.