28 occurrences

'Sinning' in the Bible

And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfWhat Sin?

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.

Verse ConceptsCessationObstinate IndividualsThings Stopping

If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.

Verse ConceptsGuilt OfferingRamsSilverPerfect SacrificesUnintentionalUnfaithful

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfBreaking The Covenant

So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsMisteachingEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfStealingDishonesty, Examples OfBreaking The CovenantIndividuals Who LiedUnder The Ban

Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodRollingForbidden FoodGod's People SinningEating Meat

For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristInnocent BloodExcitementRestraints From KillingWronging Other PeopleRisking

For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHumility

For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To God

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against God

Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

Verse ConceptsAfter A Long TimeThose Not Saved

And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.

Verse ConceptsCleanliness, Metaphorical UseRebellion, Against GodBeing Cleansed From SinGod Will ForgiveRebellion against GodGuiltforgivingcleansingrebellion

Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Law

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodPurgingEntering The KingdomBeing Cleansed From Sin

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePursuingPursuing PeopleHating EvilKilling Will Happen

Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionThe Glory Of ManGrowth Of EvilPeople MultiplyingLeaders SinningLosing Honour

May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAttitudes Of RebellionRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfInfidelity To GodDestruction Of The WickedPeople Going AstrayWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

Verse ConceptsThe Misery Of GreedDeath As PunishmentExterminationShame Of Bad Conduct

Bible Theasaurus

Transgress (33 instances)
Trespass (106 instances)

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