'Sins' in the Bible

“Now if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your actions, since you have done this, you will be captured by them.

They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences for your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep but will waste away because of your sins and will groan to one another.

They do not lie downwith the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,who went down to Sheolwith their weapons of war,whose swords were placed under their heads.The punishment for their sinsrested on their bones,although the terror of these warriorswas once in the land of the living.

“Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: You have said this, ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy on us, and we are wasting away because of them! How then can we survive?’

“Now, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

None of the sins he committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.

when I heal Israel,the sins of Ephraim and the crimes of Samariawill be exposed.For they practice fraud;a thief breaks in;a raiding party pillages outside.

But they never consider that I remember all their evil.Now their sins are all around them;they are right in front of My face.

Though they offer sacrificial giftsand eat the flesh,the Lord does not accept them.Now He will remember their guiltand punish their sins;they will return to Egypt.

They have deeply corrupted themselvesas in the days of Gibeah.He will remember their guilt;He will punish their sins.

For I know your crimes are manyand your sins innumerable.They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellionand the sins of the house of Israel.What is the rebellion of Jacob?Isn’t it Samaria?And what is the high place of Judah?Isn’t it Jerusalem?

“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,bringing desolation because of your sins.

He will again have compassion on us;He will vanquish our iniquities.You will cast all our sinsinto the depths of the sea.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”

For which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He told the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!

For this is My blood that establishes the covenant; it is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

“Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He told the paralytic,

I assure you: People will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme.

to give His people knowledge of salvationthrough the forgiveness of their sins.

He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Seeing their faith He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”

Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think: “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Those who were at the table with Him began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

And forgive us our sins,for we ourselves also forgive everyonein debt to us.And do not bring us into temptation.”

Be on your guard. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

“Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

All the prophets testify about Him that through His name everyone who believes in Him will receive forgiveness of sins.”

Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you,

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified.’

God presented Him as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

How joyful are those whose lawless acts are forgivenand whose sins are covered!

And this will be My covenant with themwhen I take away their sins.

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.

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:that Christ died for our sinsaccording to the Scriptures,

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

We have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, in Him.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

Don’t be too quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Some people’s sins are obvious, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others surface later.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

knowing that such a person is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Therefore, He had to be like His brothers in every way, so that He could become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed in service to God for the people, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all when He offered Himself.

For I will be merciful to their wrongdoing,and I will never again remember their sins.

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

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.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.

He adds:I will never again remembertheir sins and their lawless acts.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.

He Himself bore our sinsin His body on the tree,so that, having died to sins,we might live for righteousness;you have been healed by His wounds.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,the righteous for the unrighteous,that He might bring you to God,after being put to death in the fleshly realmbut made alive in the spiritual realm.

Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

I am writing to you, little children,because your sins have been forgivenbecause of Jesus’ name.

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.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood,

Then I heard another voice from heaven:Come out of her, My people,so that you will not share in her sinsor receive any of her plagues.

For her sins are piled up to heaven,and God has remembered her crimes.