'Sin' in the Bible

I have not allowed my mouth to sinby asking for his life with a curse.

For he adds rebellion to his sin;he scornfully claps in our presence,while multiplying his words against God.

For you ask, “What does it profit You,and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”

If you sin, how does it affect God?If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

Be angry and do not sin;on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still.Selah

You have tested my heart;You have examined me at night.You have tried me and found nothing evil;I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

Because of Your name, Yahweh,forgive my sin, for it is great.

Davidic. A Maskil.How joyful is the onewhose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered!

How joyful is the manthe Lord does not charge with sinand in whose spirit is no deceit!

Then I acknowledged my sin to Youand did not conceal my iniquity.I said,“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

for in his own eyes he flatters himself too muchto discover and hate his sin.

There is no health in my bodybecause of Your indignation;there is no strength in my bonesbecause of my sin.

So I confess my guilt;I am anxious because of my sin.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my waysso that I may not sin with my tongue;I will guard my mouth with a muzzleas long as the wicked are in my presence.”

You discipline a man with punishment for sin,consuming like a moth what is precious to him;every man is only a vapor.Selah

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;You open my ears to listen.You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

Wash away my guiltand cleanse me from my sin.

For I am conscious of my rebellion,and my sin is always before me.

Will they escape in spite of such sin?God, bring down the nations in wrath.

Deliver me from those who practice sin,and save me from men of bloodshed.

Lord, look! They set an ambush for me.Powerful men attack me,but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,let them be caught in their pride.They utter curses and lies.

But they continued to sin against Him,rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

You took away Your people’s guilt;You covered all their sin.Selah

then I will call their rebellionto account with the rod,their sin with blows.

He forgives all your sin;He heals all your diseases.

He rescued them many times,but they continued to rebel deliberatelyand were beaten down by their sin.

When he is judged, let him be found guilty,and let his prayer be counted as sin.

Let his ancestors’ guiltbe remembered before the Lord,and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.

I have treasured Your word in my heartso that I may not sin against You.

Make my steps steady through Your promise;don’t let any sin dominate me.

Do not let my heart turn to any evil thingor perform wicked actswith men who commit sin.Do not let me feast on their delicacies.

A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

The labor of the righteous leads to life;the activity of the wicked leads to sin.

When there are many words, sin is unavoidable,but the one who controls his lips is wise.

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Righteousness exalts a nation,but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;I am cleansed from my sin”?

The lamp that guides the wicked—haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.

A foolish scheme is sin,and a mocker is detestable to people.

It is not good to show partiality—yet a man may sin for a piece of bread.

The one who robs his father or motherand says, “That’s no sin,”is a companion to a man who destroys.

An evil man is caught by sin,but the righteous one sings and rejoices.

The look on their faces testifies against them,and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin.They do not conceal it.Woe to them,for they have brought evil on themselves.

Woe to those who drag wickednesswith cords of deceitand pull sin along with cart ropes,

He touched my mouth with it and said:Now that this has touched your lips,your wickedness is removedand your sin is atoned for.

The Lord of Hosts has directly revealed to me:“This sin of yours will never be wiped out.”The Lord God of Hosts has spoken.

Therefore Jacob’s iniquity will be purged in this way,and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:when he makes all the altar stoneslike crushed bits of chalk,no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Woe to the rebellious children!This is the Lord’s declaration.They carry out a plan, but not Mine;they make an alliance,but against My will,piling sin on top of sin.

Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion,and He will receive the mighty as spoil,because He submitted Himself to death,and was counted among the rebels;yet He bore the sin of manyand interceded for the rebels.

“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the Lord declared all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

I will first repay them double for their guilt and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”

The sin of Judah is writtenwith an iron stylus.With a diamond pointit is engraved on the tablet of their heartsand on the horns of their altars,

My mountains in the countryside.I will give up your wealthand all your treasures as plunderbecause of the sin of your high placesin all your borders.

But You, Lord, knowall their deadly plots against me.Do not wipe out their guilt;do not blot out their sin before You.Let them be forced to stumble before You;deal with them in the time of Your anger.

No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.”

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their wrongdoing and their sin.”

Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have saved your life.”

But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

It will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, drawing attention to their sin of turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

“So when I tell the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but he repents of his sin and does what is just and right—

Inside the portico of the gate there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering, and restitution offering.

Then the man said to me, “The northern and southern chambers that face the temple yard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will deposit the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, sin offerings, and restitution offerings—for the place is holy.

You are to give a bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who approach Me in order to serve Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Then you must take away the bull for the sin offering, and it must be burned outside the sanctuary in the place appointed for the temple.

“On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they did with the bull.

You will offer a goat for a sin offering each day for seven days. A young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished, must also be offered.

Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their sin.

Because they ministered to the house of Israel before their idols and became a sinful stumbling block to them, therefore I swore an oath against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“that they would bear the consequences of their sin.

On the day he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he must present his sin offering.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

They will eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the restitution offering. Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated to the Lord will belong to them.

Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

The priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar’s ledge, and the doorposts of the gate to the inner court.

On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land.

During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering.

At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he will provide the same things for seven days—the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the restitution offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

Near the end of their kingdoms,when the rebels have reachedthe full measure of their sin,an insolent king, skilled in intrigue,will come to the throne.

While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—

Seventy weeks are decreedabout your people and your holy city—to bring the rebellion to an end,to put a stop to sin,to wipe away iniquity,to bring in everlasting righteousness,to seal up vision and prophecy,and to anoint the most holy place.

They feed on the sin of My people;they have an appetite for their transgressions.

When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,they became his altars for sinning.

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,will be destroyed;thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.They will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Now they continue to sinand make themselves a cast image,idols skillfully made from their silver,all of them the work of craftsmen.People say about them,“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”

Ephraim’s guilt is preserved;his sin is stored up.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,for you have stumbled in your sin.

Take words of repentance with youand return to the Lord.Say to Him: “Forgive all our sinand accept what is good,so that we may repay Youwith praise from our lips.

Harness the horses to the chariot,you residents of Lachish.This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion,because Israel’s acts of rebellion can be traced to you.

As for me, however, I am filled with powerby the Spirit of the Lord,with justice and courage,to proclaim to Jacob his rebellionand to Israel his sin.

Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of ramsor with ten thousand streams of oil?Should I give my firstborn for my transgression,the child of my body for my own sin?

“On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.

True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing wrong was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and fairness and turned many from sin.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!

Because of this, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—