1 John 1:9ESV / 8 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 3:4ESV / 7 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Romans 6:23ESV / 7 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
James 4:17ESV / 6 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 2:10ESV / 6 helpful votes
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
John 3:16ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 5:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 1:7ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 Peter 2:24ESV / 4 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
James 1:15ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Romans 3:23ESV / 4 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 2:16ESV / 4 helpful votes
On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Acts 2:38ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 3:20ESV / 4 helpful votes
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
Isaiah 1:18ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Ecclesiastes 12:14ESV / 4 helpful votes
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Psalm 90:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
1 John 5:16ESV / 3 helpful votes
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
1 John 3:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
1 John 1:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
2 Peter 2:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);
1 Peter 3:18ESV / 3 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
James 5:16ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 4:12ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Thessalonians 2:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
Colossians 2:13ESV / 3 helpful votes
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Galatians 6:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
2 Corinthians 5:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:19ESV / 3 helpful votes
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
1 Corinthians 4:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Romans 14:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Romans 7:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Romans 5:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Matthew 12:31ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Jeremiah 17:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Proverbs 26:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Psalm 69:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
Psalm 44:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Genesis 3:1-24ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
Revelation 20:11-15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 2:23ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
Revelation 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Revelation 1:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Jude 1:23ESV / 2 helpful votes
Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
1 John 4:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 3:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:8-10ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 2:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
1 John 2:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 Peter 3:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 2:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2 Peter 2:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 1:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Peter 4:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
1 Peter 3:20ESV / 2 helpful votes
Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
James 5:20ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 4:1-3ESV / 2 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
James 2:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Hebrews 13:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Hebrews 12:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 10:26ESV / 2 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Hebrews 10:2ESV / 2 helpful votes
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Hebrews 9:27ESV / 2 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Hebrews 9:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
2 Timothy 3:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 2:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 4:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
1 Timothy 3:16ESV / 2 helpful votes
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ...
Colossians 2:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Ephesians 5:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
Ephesians 5:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Ephesians 2:8-9ESV / 2 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:2ESV / 2 helpful votes
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Galatians 6:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
2 Corinthians 5:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 6:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice hom*osexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice hom*osexuality,
1 Corinthians 3:16ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
Romans 10:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 8:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Romans 8:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Romans 7:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Romans 7:19ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Romans 7:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 7:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
Romans 7:1-25ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...
Romans 5:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 5:12-21ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. ...
Romans 4:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
Romans 2:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 1:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Acts 4:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
