28 Bible Verses about Avoiding Sin

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us [our] sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.

Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.

Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

"Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness {forever}, but is guilty of [an] eternal sin"--

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

"Enter through the narrow gate, because broad [is] the gate and spacious [is] the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it, because narrow [is] the gate and constricted [is] the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it!

And Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And then {I will say to them plainly}, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!'

Blessed [are] the ones who wash their robes, so that their authority will be over the tree of life and they may enter into the city through the gates.

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.

Abstain from every form of evil.

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out from her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins, and so that you will not receive her plagues,

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but to the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.