Quotes About Sin

As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ëWe are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.í

Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israelís guilt, but there will be none, and for Judahís sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”

So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.”

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,