16 Bible Verses about Continuing In Sin

Then what shall we conclude? Are we to continue to sin to increase the spread of mercy?

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not!

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means.

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy."

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

They have left the straight path and gone astray. They have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on dishonest gain,