Bible Verses About Sin

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

"Yet to God they said, 'Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

How then can humans be righteous with God? How can those born of women be clean?

"If I concealed my sins, as most people do, by hiding my wrongdoing in my heart,

He declares before everyone, 'I sinned; I perverted what was right, and it gained me nothing.

teach me what I have failed to see; and if I have done wrong, I will do it no more'?

therefore I detest [myself] and repent in dust and ashes."

You can be angry, but do not sin! Think about this as you lie in bed, and calm down. (Selah)

For the wicked boasts about his lusts; he blesses greed and despises ADONAI.

He says in his heart, "God forgets, he hides his face, he will never see."

As for what others do, by words from your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent;

Also keep your servant from presumptuous sins, so that they won't control me. Then I will be blameless and free of great offense.

turn from evil, and do good; seek peace, go after it!

Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;

I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.

For the leader. Set in the style of Y'dutun. A psalm of David: I said, "I will watch how I behave, so that I won't sin with my tongue; I will put a muzzle on my mouth whenever the wicked confront me."

When you do such things, should I stay silent? You may have thought I was just like you; but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.

Wash me completely from my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin.

True, I was born guilty, was a sinner from the moment my mother conceived me.

They support each other's evil plans; they talk of hiding snares and ask, "Who would see them?"

Had I cherished evil thoughts, Adonai would not have listened.

Remember how the enemy scoffs at ADONAI, how a brutish people insults your name.

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High;

You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.