28 Bible Verses about Continuing In Sin

What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? -- as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

"Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.'

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

The evildoer must continue to do evil, and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy. The one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy."

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

"Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day!

If the wicked are shown mercy, they do not learn about justice. Even in a land where right is rewarded, they act unjustly; they do not see the Lord's majesty revealed.

They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,