25 Bible Verses about Avoiding Sin

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

For all men sin and come short of the glory of God,

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.

So when a man knows what is right and fails to do it, he is guilty of sin.

Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

I tell you, men will be forgiven for everything, for all their sins and all the abusive things they say. But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law.

The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with desire has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Therefore, my dear brothers, have nothing to do with the worship of idols.

Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it.

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

and avoiding every kind of evil.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, and suffer from her plagues.

And anyone who speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but no one who reviles the holy Spirit will be forgiven.