16 Bible Verses about Sin, Consequences Of

Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

The Lord revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions. (Higgaion. Selah)

The evil person is ensnared by the transgression of his speech, but the righteous person escapes out of trouble.

In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

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

There will be no prosperity," says my God, "for the wicked."

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

The righteous person hates anything false, but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.