'Sin' in the Bible
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”—
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”
When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”
“No one, Lord,” she answered.“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]
Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”
Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?
“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin.
If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:
“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”
Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin!” And saying this, he fell asleep.
What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,
For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
How joyful is the manthe Lord will never charge with sin!
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.
In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One.
And the gift is not like the one man’s sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification.
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.
So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,
and having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.
But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.
And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.
Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.
So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.
Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.
because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,
Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.
Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord.
Now the sting of death is sin,and the power of sin is the law.
He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not!
Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,
Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the rest will also be afraid.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin.
Because of this, he must make a sin offering for himself as well as for the people.
Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.
You did not delightin whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.
After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),
Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.
For what credit is there if you sin and are punished, and you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.
He did not commit sin,and no deceit was found in His mouth;
Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—
They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.
You know that He was revealed so that He might take away sins, and there is no sin in Him.
Everyone who remains in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him or known Him.
The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.
Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not bring death, he should ask, and God will give life to him—to those who commit sin that doesn’t bring death. There is sin that brings death. I am not saying he should pray about that.
All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that does not bring death.
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
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