Bible Verses About Sin

They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure--born of a woman?

If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'

Therefore do I loathe it , And I have repented on dust and ashes.

`Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

Also--from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin.

For mine iniquity I declare, I am sorry for my sin.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

Remember this--an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,