'Sins' in the Bible

But when the righteous person abandons his righteous deeds and commits evil, detestable practices, as wicked people do, he won't live, will he? None of the righteous acts that he had done will be remembered. He'll die in his treacherous unfaithfulness and sins that he had committed."

"Therefore, Israel, I'm going to judge you according to the behavior of each and every one of you," declares the Lord GOD. "So repent and turn from all your sins so that sin won't keep on being a stumbling block for you.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you remembered your sins when your transgressions were uncovered, your sins are visibly evident in everything you've done. And since you've remembered them, you'll be taken captive.

You'll receive the consequences for your obscene conduct and bear the punishment for your sins of idolatry. Then you'll know that I am the Lord GOD."

Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals will be on your feet. You won't mourn or weep. Instead, you'll waste away in your sins. Every one of you will groan to his relative.

""Now, Son of Man, tell this to the house of Israel: "You keep saying, "Our crimes and sins burden us so much that we're rotting away, so how can we keep on living?"'

None of the sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. Since he did what is just and right, he will certainly live.

They will never again defile themselves with their idols, with other loathsome things, or with any of their sins. Instead, I will deliver them from all of the places where they have sinned, and then I'll cleanse them. They will be my people and I will be their God."'"

You are also to do this on the seventh day of the month, to make atonement for any person who wanders away or who sins through ignorance in order to make atonement for the Temple.

Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, please turn your anger and wrath away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an embarrassment to all of those around us.

They offer me meat from the sacrifices of my offerings, and they eat from it, but the LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their transgression and pay them back for their sins; to Egypt they will return.

They have corrupted themselves deeply, as did Gibeah in its day. Therefore God will remember their lawlessness, and he will pay them back for their sins.

and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court

All this comes about due to the transgression of Jacob, and due to the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's sin? It's Samaria, isn't it? And what's Judah's high place? It's Jerusalem, isn't it?

He will again show us compassion; he will subdue our iniquities. You will hurl all their sins into the deepest sea.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins."

being baptized by him in the Jordan River while they confessed their sins.

and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.

All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven."

Which is easier: to say, "Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, "Get up and walk'?

But so you will know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"" he told the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

"If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

because this is my blood of the new covenant that is being poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

People from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.

When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"" Then he told the paralyzed man,

I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

"Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins."

and to give his people knowledge of salvation through forgiveness of their sins.

John went throughout the entire Jordan region, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Mister, your sins are forgiven."

The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Which is easier: to say, "Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, "Get up and walk'?

But so you'll know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"." he told the paralyzed man, "I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

So I'm telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that's why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little."

Then Jesus told her, "Your sins are forgiven!"

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

and forgive us our sins, as we forgive everyone who sins against us. And never bring us into temptation.'"

"Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back to you seven times and says, "I repent,' you must forgive him."

and then repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

If you forgive people's sins, they are forgiven. If you retain people's sins, they are retained."

Peter answered them, "Every one of you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.

Therefore, repent and turn to him to have your sins blotted out,

God has exalted to his right hand this very man as our Leader and Savior in order to extend repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

All the prophets testify to this: everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

"Therefore, brothers, you must understand that through him the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'

You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

"How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered!

How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"

He was sentenced to death because of our sins and raised to life to justify us.

This is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

For I passed on to you the most important points that I received: The Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and if the Messiah has not been raised, your faith is worthless and you are still imprisoned by your sins.

for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us.

He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins

through whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.

as they try to keep us from telling the gentiles how they can be saved. As a result, they are constantly adding to the number of sins they have committed. However, wrath has overtaken them at last!

Do not ordain anyone hastily. Do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

The sins of some people are obvious, leading them to judgment. The sins of others follow them there.

For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.

He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact likeness of his being, and he holds everything together by his powerful word. After he had provided a cleansing from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Highest Majesty

thereby becoming like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and could atone for the people's sins.

For every high priest selected from among men is appointed to officiate on their behalf in matters relating to God, that is, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds, and I will never again remember their sins."

But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.

so the Messiah was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?

Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year,

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

Day after day every priest stands and repeatedly offers the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."

and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless deeds."

Now where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no longer any offering for sin.

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

And the prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick. The Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.

Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."

For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

For the person who lacks these qualities is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.

If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

You know that the Messiah was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.