Quotes About Sin

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brotherís blood from your hand.

“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his fatherís nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “donít do such a wicked thing!

because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his fatherís concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

And Reuben responded, “Didnít I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”