Bible verses by topic / Sin
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
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.
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”
Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
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.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
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.
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.
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
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.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.
And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
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.
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
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.
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
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.
Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
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.
We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.
There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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.
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
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.