Bible Verses About Sin
Scripture on sin and its remedy — honest about the disease, generous with the cure.
The Bible is honest about sin — its universality, its wages, and its cure. It does not leave us in despair but points every time to the remedy in Christ. These verses hold both truths: the diagnosis and the healing.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
As far as the east is from the west, so far... our transgressions.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Sin is real and serious, and it is not the end of the story. Named honestly and brought to Christ, the scarlet turns white. Do not hide it — confess it, and be washed clean.
