28 Bible Verses about Continuing In Sin

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;

Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked thoughts
Lodge within you?

“As a well keeps its waters fresh,
So she keeps fresh her wickedness.
Violence and destruction are heard in her;
Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

“Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days.

Though the wicked is shown favor,
He does not learn righteousness;
He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,
And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.

They feed on the sin of My people
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.

but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;