Bible Verses About Covering Sin
This collection includes 50 passages about Covering Sin. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Scripture Passages
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
And the covering of ramsβ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgersβ skins, and the vail of the covering,
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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