Romans 6:23ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 3:23ESV / 10 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Galatians 5:19-21ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
John 3:16ESV / 6 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 1:9ESV / 5 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 5:12ESV / 5 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—
1 John 3:4ESV / 4 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 1:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
James 4:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
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.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5ESV / 4 helpful votes
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
2 Corinthians 5:21ESV / 4 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 5:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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 8:34ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
John 3:16-17ESV / 4 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 1:21ESV / 4 helpful votes
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Psalm 103:12ESV / 4 helpful votes
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Genesis 2:17ESV / 4 helpful votes
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
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 2:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
James 2:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
Hebrews 13:4ESV / 3 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 12:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Corinthians 15:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 10:13ESV / 3 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10ESV / 3 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.
Romans 8:7ESV / 3 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 7:1-25ESV / 3 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. ...
John 3:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 1:29ESV / 3 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Luke 12:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 26:28ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 12:31-32ESV / 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. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Matthew 5:28ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Jeremiah 17:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Isaiah 59:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 55:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Proverbs 28:13ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Genesis 4:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”
Revelation 21:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
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.
1 John 5:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 5:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
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 3:6ESV / 2 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 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 John 2:1-2ESV / 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. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
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 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 5:16ESV / 2 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.
James 4:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Hebrews 10:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
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.
Hebrews 8:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Hebrews 4:15-16ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 3:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Titus 2:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Ephesians 5:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 4:32ESV / 2 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:23ESV / 2 helpful votes
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
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 2:2ESV / 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—
Ephesians 2:1-22ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 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— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
Ephesians 2:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
Ephesians 1:13-14ESV / 2 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
2 Corinthians 5:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
1 Corinthians 15:56ESV / 2 helpful votes
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1 Corinthians 15:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
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 6:18-20ESV / 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. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:1-20ESV / 2 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...
1 Corinthians 5:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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 8:7-8ESV / 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. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 7:23ESV / 2 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 7:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
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 6:16ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:1-23ESV / 2 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 5:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
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 5:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 4:1-25ESV / 2 helpful votes
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...
Romans 3:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Romans 1:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Acts 17:30ESV / 2 helpful votes
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
Acts 16:31ESV / 2 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 13:39ESV / 2 helpful votes
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:38ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
Acts 10:43ESV / 2 helpful votes
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
John 15:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 14:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 12:43ESV / 2 helpful votes
For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
John 9:41ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
