Quotes About Sin

One man commits an abomination with his neighborís wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own fatherís daughter.

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Then the LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ëNow let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!í

And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.í”

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.í

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ëOur transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?í

Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëYou eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.