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

But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”

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

That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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.

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

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.

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

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

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.

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!

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

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

When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment.

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.

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

Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

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.

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.

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

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.

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

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.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.

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