Quotes About Sin

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and You took away the guilt of my sin. Psalm 32:5

The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. Proverbs 28:13

God remembers our sins no more because the work of the cross already has. No further sacrifice remains for sin because the work has already been accomplished. Therefore, God need never act again on their behalf.

Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that lies before us. Hebrews 12:1

This one is so important! We'll let David, a man who certainly fell into sin after godliness, introduce it to us through his very private prayer. He wrote:

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion.

Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others.

Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Lord, I don't want to entertain sin in my heart. I want my heart to be right before You so that You will always hear my prayers. I know I don't do everything perfectly, so I ask that by the power of Your Holy Spirit You will enable me to keep my heart pure and my hands clean. Thank You for loving me and helping me do what is right in Your sight.

The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.

Noise was on her list of slave sins, which we knew by heart. Number one: stealing. Number two: disobedience. Number three: laziness. Number four: noise. A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready.

Megan's right about my being a sinner. But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

Well, no one says you can be happy about everything, I said. I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

I know I ate at least four cookies, which probably guarantees me a first-class ticket to hell for gluttony.

For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips /

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that's authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.