Romans 5:20
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?
2 Chronicles 33:9-13
But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
Psalm 25:11
For the sake of your reputation, O Lord, forgive my sin, because it is great.
Isaiah 1:18
Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
Isaiah 43:24-25
You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
Jeremiah 3:8-14
She also saw that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods. Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this, she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.
Ezekiel 16:52
So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:60-63
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 36:25-32
I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
Micah 7:18-19
There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."
Luke 23:39-43
One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 7:5-13
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
2 Corinthians 3:7-9
But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),
Galatians 3:19-25
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
Ephesians 1:6-8
to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
Ephesians 2:1-5
And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
1 Timothy 1:13-16
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,
Titus 3:3-7
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.