58 Bible Verses about Sinners
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He committed no sin and deception was not found in him.
He was buried like a criminal in a rich mans grave. He had done no wrong, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.
We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!
Such a high priest as this was suitable for us. He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and higher than the heavens.
You know that he appeared to take away sins. There is no sin in him!
But the Scriptures shut up (imprisoned) (pictured) all things (mankind) under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
They may sin against you, for everyone sins. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy far or near who takes them to another country as captives.
Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin. The Scriptures say: There is no one who is righteous, There is no one who has insight. No one seeks God!read more.
All have turned away from God; they have all done wrong. No one does what is right, not even one. (Psalm 53:3) Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9) Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (Psalm 10:7) Their feet are swift to shed blood. (Proverbs 1:15) Destruction and misery are in their ways. (Isaiah 59:7) They have not known the way of peace. (Isaiah 59:7, 8) There is no respect (reverence) for God before their eyes. (Psalm 36:1) We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
Jehovah is good and decent. That is why he teaches sinners the way they should live. He leads humble people to do what is right, and he teaches them his way. All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness (mercy) and truth for those who cling to his promise and written instructions.
Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people. In your home in heaven hear us and forgive us.
You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.
He will save his people Israel from all their sins.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.
God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.
One day a large number of tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus.
None of the daughters of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute. Do not bring the hire (fee) of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow offering. Both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.
Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead.
Tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him: Teacher, what must we do?
A sinful woman went to the Pharisee's house. She brought an alabaster vase filled with ointment. Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear?
The righteous will be rewarded on the earth much more than the wicked and the sinner.
He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly! He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and made them an example to those who are ungodly.
The Pharisee saw it and thought to himself if this man were a prophet he would know what kind of woman touched him. She is a sinner.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.
My son, if sinners tempt you do not consent. If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit.read more.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse. My son, do not walk in the way with them. Withhold your food from their path! For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Let sinners be consumed from the world. Let the wicked no longer exist. Bless Jehovah with all my being! Praise Jehovah!
Appoint the evil one to oppose him. Let an accuser stand at his right hand. When he stands trial, let him be found guilty. Let his prayer be considered sinful. Let his days be few in number. Let someone else take his place.read more.
Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow. Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes. Let a creditor take everything he owns. Let strangers steal what he has worked for. Let no one be kind to him anymore. Let no one show any pity to his fatherless children. Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation. Let Jehovah remember the guilt of his ancestors and not wipe out his mother's sin. Let their guilt and sin always remain on record in front of Jehovah. Let Jehovah remove every memory of him from the earth, for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves. He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing. He wore cursing as though it were clothing; so cursing entered his body like water and his bones like oil. Let cursing be his clothing, a belt he always wears. This is how Jehovah rewards those who accuse me, those who say evil things against me.
O Jehovah, remember the people of Edom. Remember what they did the day Jerusalem was captured. They said: Tear it down! Tear it down to its foundation. You destructive people of Babylon, blessed is the one who pays you back with the same treatment you gave us. Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.
But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.
If I had thought about doing anything sinful, Jehovah would not have listened to me.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.
We know that God does not listen to sinners. If any man respects God and does his will, God listens to him.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.
Adversity pursues sinners. The righteous will be repaid with goodness. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.
Therefore the wicked will not stand (be upright) in the judgment. The sinners will not stand (endure) in the assembly of the righteous.
Jehovah confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
But transgressors will be altogether destroyed. The posterity of the wicked will be destroyed.
Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time. Those who abandon Jehovah will come to an end.
Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it.
The sinners in Zion are terrified. The godless tremble. Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with long lasting fire?
You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.
All the sinners of my people will die by the sword. They say: The evil will not overtake nor meet us.
According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Then they will go out and look at the corpses of those who have rebelled (sinned) against me. The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that burns them will not go out and they will disgust all humanity.
They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the Lord and from the glory of his might.
From Thematic Bible
Sinners » Pardon of » Promised
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).
Sinners » Disowned » Misery of
All his days the wicked man suffers torment and the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.
Samuel said to Saul: Why have you disturbed me? Why did you make me come back? Saul answered: I am in great trouble! The Philistines are at war with me. God has abandoned me. He does not answer me any more by prophets or by dreams. Please tell me what to do.
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening. Every evening you will wish for morning.
Sinners » Pardon of » Sought
([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.
After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told Jehovah: What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Jehovah, please forgive me.
He prayed: Jehovah, if you really are pleased with me, I pray that you will go with us. It is true that these people are sinful and rebellious. However, please forgive our sin and let us be your people.
Sinners » Salvation » Of God
Truly God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid. Jehovah... Jehovah is my strength and my song! He has become my salvation.
This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the stronghold of my life. Who is there to be afraid of?
Sinners » Conditions of » The gift of God
He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?
Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.
For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
But the two are not the same, because God's gift (spiritual endowment) is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his gift to so many people through the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ.
Sinners » Conditions of » Sought
Make your face shine on me (smile on me) (show me favor) (be kind and merciful to me). Save me in your loving-kindness.
Say: Rescue us, O God our Salvation. Gather us and save us from the nations that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Sinners » Conditions of » Possible to all men
It is God's desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth.
It will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel 2:32)
The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men.
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness. He is longsuffering (patient) toward you. He does not wish that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).
Sinners » Disowned » Joy of, brief
The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold joy from my heart. My heart took pleasure in all my work and this was my reward.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards. No one sings or shouts in the vineyards! No one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
Sinners » Conditions of » Promised
Jesus said to him: Salvation has come to this house today. He is also a son of Abraham.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved. He who does not believe will be condemned.
They said: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.
Jehovah will save Israel with an everlasting salvation. You will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Sinners » Conditions of » Faith and confession
From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and have active faith in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.
Sinners » Conditions of » Free
The Spirit and the bride say: Come And let him who hears say: Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him drink the water of life freely.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of esau, it may be done under the impulse of the moment
Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau. He sold his birthright for a single meal! Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive (inherit) his father's blessing. He was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done. He was in tears when he looked for it.
Esau said: All right! I am about to die. What good are rights as firstborn to me? Jacob answered: First make a vow that you will give me your birthright. Esau made the vow and gave his rights as firstborn to Jacob.
Sinners » Salvation » His blood avails
Much more, now justified by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him.
For God has not appointed us to experience his wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of ahab, it may be prompted by others
Then his wife Jezebel said: Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, eat and be happy. I will give you the garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Ahab said to Elijah: Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy? Elijah said: I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
Sinners » Sin » Drink
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the Temple in Jerusalem. This way the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
Sinners » Salvation » Only through Christ
He raised up a horn of salvation (power of deliverance) for us in the house of his servant David
Sinners » Conditions of » Spiritual cleansing
Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.
Sinners » Sin » Herod » foolish promise
It was Herod's birthday. The daughter of Herodias danced for him and pleased him. So he promised with an oath to give her anything she wanted. Prompted by her mother, she said: Give me John the Baptist's head on a platter. read more.
The king was grieved. He gave his oath and many were watching so he commanded that it be done. He gave the order to behead John in prison.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of samson, it may be done reluctantly
She kept asking him, day after day. He got sick and tired of her nagging him. So finally he told her the truth: My hair has never been cut, he said: I have been dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the time I was born. I would lose my strength if my hair were cut.
Sinners » Conditions of » Spiritual diligence
Brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election (choosing) sure. If you do (practice) (exercise) (apply) these things, you will never stumble! For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly (abundantly) supplied to you.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of cain it may be done in secret
While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Jehovah asked Cain: Where is your brother Abel? I do not know, he replied. Am I my brother's keeper? Jehovah said: What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood (life) cries out to me from the ground.
Sinners » Sin » Judas » approval » Authorities
Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might betray Jesus to them. They were glad to hear it and promised to give him money. He looked for ways how he might conveniently deliver Jesus to them.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of joseph's brethren, it may be years before its discovery
They said to one another: Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.
Sinners » Conditions of » Endurance
Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.
Sinners » Salvation » At his coming
So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear the second time without sin to those who look to him for their salvation.
Sinners » Snared no matter how committed, sin will be exposed » Like the sin of achan, it may be well covered up
When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.
Sinners » Salvation » For the obedient
Being made perfect, he became the source (cause) (channel) (conduit) (pathway) (facilitator) of eternal salvation to all who obey him. (Psalm 3:8)
Sinners » Sin » Pilate » gratify » public
Wishing to please the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. Then he handed over Jesus. He was flogged and impaled.
Sinners » Sin » Jews » Ignorance
[Jesus said: Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.](This verse not found in older manuscripts.) They cast lots and divided his garments among themselves.
Sinners » Conditions of » Spiritual receptivity
Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.
Sinners » Salvation » His grace sufficient
Sinners » Salvation » The only saviour
There is no salvation in anyone else. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Sinners » Salvation » The only door
I am the door. If any man enters through me he will be saved. He will go in and out and find pasture.
Titles and names of the wicked » Sinners
Do not sweep me away with hardened sinners or my life along with bloodthirsty people.
Topics on Sinners
Fellowship With Sinners
Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead reprove (expose) (convict) them.
Restoring Sinners
Galatians 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right. But you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted, too.
Sinners Grasped By Death
Psalm 9:17The grave is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.
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