Bible Verses About Sin

If anyone rebels against your order and doesn't heed what you say in every detail of your order, he will be put to death. Just be strong, be bold!"

The sin of these young men was very serious in ADONAI's view, because they treated offerings made to ADONAI with contempt.

Sh'mu'el said, "What have you done?" Sha'ul answered, "I saw that the army was drifting away from me, that you hadn't come during the time appointed The Hebrew text lacks the number. and that the P'lishtim had assembled at Mikhmas.

I said, 'Now the P'lishtim will fall on me at Gilgal, and I haven't asked the favor of ADONAI,' so I forced myself and offered the burnt offering."

Sh'mu'el went to Sha'ul; Sha'ul said to him, "May ADONAI bless you! I have done what ADONAI ordered."

But Sh'mu'el answered, "If so, why do I hear sheep bleating and cows mooing?"

Sha'ul said, "They brought them from the 'Amaleki, because the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to ADONAI your God. But we completely destroyed the rest."

"If they sin against you - for there is no one who doesn't sin - and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, so that they carry them off captive to the land of their enemy, whether far away or nearby;

Y'hudah did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective; they made him angry because of their sins, which were worse than any their ancestors had committed.

"I raised you up out of the dust and made you prince over my people Isra'el. But you have lived in the same way as Yarov'am and caused my people Isra'el to sin, so that their sinning has made me angry.

Truly, there was never anyone like Ach'av. Stirred up by his wife Izevel, he gave himself over to do what is evil from ADONAI's perspective.

Even if I washed myself in melted snow and cleansed my hands with lye,

you would plunge me into the muddy pit, till my own clothes would detest me.

to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.

if you will put your iniquity at a distance and not let unrighteousness remain in your tents,

How many crimes and sins have I committed? Make me know my transgression and sin.

"A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.

"What is a human being, that he could be innocent, someone born from a woman, that he could be righteous?

His bones may be filled with [the vigor of] his youth, but it will join him lying in the dust.

"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old and keep increasing their power?

They see their children settled with them, their posterity assured.

Their houses are safe, with nothing to fear; God's rod is not on them.

Their bulls are fertile without fail, their cows get pregnant and don't miscarry.

They produce flocks of babies, and their children dance around.

They sing with tambourines and lyres and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.