Quotes About Sin

The Bible never teaches that man is responsible for his sins because he is free. Man is responsible for his sins not because he is free to do otherwise; this verse says that he is not free. Whether man is responsible has to do with whether God decides to hold him accountable; it has nothing to do with whether man is free. Man is responsible because God has decided to judge him for his sins.

Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. (Isaiah 59:7)

We are not saved by our own goodness, because we have none, but we are saved by God's sovereign mercy.

The Bible describes non-Christians as contemptible, entirely useless and pathetic. We were also in such a condition. If left to ourselves, we would have remained in ignorance and wickedness.

but we were given this wisdom because God chose us to become Christians, to be rescued from sin and hellfire through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Knowing this, there is no room for arrogance, but we are grateful to God for our salvation, and we labor so that others may be saved as well.

No matter what issues you face today, you are miserable and you are dying because your sin has separated you from God. Putting a bandage over a rotting cancer is not going to cure you. You

An understanding of divine holiness should move us to fear God. He is inherently worthy of extreme reverence, and it is a serious sin to deny him of proper worship:

Sin alienates a person from God, and drives the person to live in a way that displeases him. This person will spend less time praying, reading the Bible and Christian books, ministering to others, and seeking God (v. 13-16). Sins leads a person into spiritual poverty:

You are not excused from your sins, but God's truth and power, and his entire plan of redemption, do not hinge on your holiness.

if you refuse to repent and believe, then one day God will take your life and throw you into the lake of fire. And you shall be numbered with the murderers, adulterers, homosexuals, slanderers, those who practice witchcraft, those who are the lovers of money and pleasure, and all idolaters and unbelievers.

when it comes to salvation, no one under the dominion of sin can simply "decide" to be free from it unless God causes him to be free, nor would the person wish to be free from sin before this occurs.

The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong. (Psalm 5:5)

Sin corrupts and erodes a person's heart,

we are to hate both the evil people and their evil deeds.

Even the least of the Christians are better off than the non-Christians. Sinners are too foolish to realize this.

Sometimes even a true Christian may fall into serious sin, but such a fall is never permanent. Nevertheless, as long as a person persists in a sinful lifestyle, we have no reason to believe his profession of faith, and therefore should think of him as an unbeliever. Jesus teaches that a stubborn refusal to repent is sufficient reason for excommunication:

God exhibits a natural benevolence toward all his creatures, and it is called "love" in this restricted sense. The purpose is to preserve them for his use, including the display of his wrath when he punishes them for their sins. But to the chosen ones, God's love also means self-sacrifice (in redeeming them through Christ) and self-disclosure (in providing them theological knowledge).

Many Christians forget how bad their lives were before God saved them. They dwell on all the "pleasures of sin" (Hebrews 11:25) that had them in Satan's snare before God "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13).

Since repentance is a turning of the mind from sin and toward God, the first sign of repentance is one's perception of his true condition,

One who comes to God in repentance relies on God's mercy alone. He says, "I can do nothing. I cannot undo what I have done. I cannot pay the debt that I have incurred. All I can do is to place my life in God's hands, and be at his mercy, and let him do whatever he wants with me." This attitude is already an effect of God's mercy at work. He changes the will of the sinner and grants him the gift of repentance.

Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replied, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.

The Bible says that man is essentially wicked, and that he needs a savior who is qualified to pay for his many transgressions.

The way of transgressors is hard." This is half of a verse from Proverbs (13:15, KJV).

As Paul makes the case that every person has sinned and that every person falls short of the glory of God, he cites homosexuality as a prime example of wickedness.