What is Sin
10 passages
- Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read it in context - 1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Read it in context - Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Read it in context - James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Read it in context - 1 John 5:17
All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.
Read it in context - 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Read it in context - Galatians 5:19–21
19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; 20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Read it in context - Romans 14:23
But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.
Read it in context - Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Read it in context - Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
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