Bible verses about Sin
Verses about what sin is and what it does.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
James 4:17Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
James 1:15But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
Isaiah 59:2Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Psalms 51:4If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Genesis 4:7But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.
Romans 14:23The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Galatians 5:19But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:28Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Romans 6:12I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Hebrews 12:1I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Psalms 119:11Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
John 8:34What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
Romans 6:1As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Romans 3:10