'Sin' in the Bible

I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.

And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.