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

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.

You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

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.”

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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.

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

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

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

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

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!

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

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.

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

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.

We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

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

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

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.’

If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.

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

Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

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.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

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.

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

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

And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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.

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.

We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

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

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

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.