Quotes About Sin

Nor is any service pleasing to God till the guilt of sin be removed by our interest in the great propitiation.

Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;

Those sins which are concealed from our governors are naked and open before God.

As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;

Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.

mic.6.7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?† mic.6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?†

The cause of sin; it is because his fear is not in us. It is for want of a good principle in us, particularly for want of the fear of God; this is at the bottom of our apostasy from him; men forsake their duty to God because they stand in no awe of him nor have any dread of his displeasure

Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

There is in every wilful sin an interpretative contempt of the goodness of God; it is spurning at his bowels, particularly the goodness of his patience, his forbearance and long-suffering

He is a living man, and yet complains of the punishment of his sin, Lam 3:39. He thinks himself rigorously dealt with when really he is favourably treated; and he cries out of wrong when he has more reason to wonder that he is out of hell.

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. He despised the sacrifice of torn and broken beasts, but he will not despise that of a torn and broken heart. He will not overlook it; he will not refuse or reject it; though it make God no satisfaction for the wrong done him by sin, yet he does not despise it.

but the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all sin, and after it there needs no cleansing.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

It is better to live poorly on the fruits of God's goodness, than live plentifully on the products of our own sin.

Guilt and corruption are our two great discouragements when we stand before God. By the guilt of the sins committed by us we have become obnoxious to the justice of God; by the power of the sin that dwells in us we have become odious to the holiness of God.

We have need to be washed in the blood of Christ from our spots, though they be not leprosy-spots;

When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction

Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.

The Lord is for the body, and it is not only folly, but sin against God, to prejudice our health for the pleasing of our appetite.

Así que un hombre puede llorar por el pecado, y sin embargo ser sólo un casi cristiano. Puede entristecerle pensar en la muerte que trae el pecado, pero no le entristece que el pecado lo contamina y lo pervierte.

Ya que tales hombres viven como si no tuvieran que rendirle servicio a Dios, ni buscando a Cristo, como si no tuviesen que mortificar las pasiones carnales, sin negar el yo, ni creyendo en la Escritura, que no piensan en el día del juicio, ni que el infierno tiene que ser temido, que no desean el cielo, sin valorar su alma; pero se entregan a una sensualidad peor que salvaje, "para cometer con avidez toda clase de impureza,"[43] viviendo sin Dios en el mundo.