Bible Verses About Sin

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

As for the deeds of men— by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.