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Bible Verses About Sin and Disobedience

This collection includes 50 passages about Sin and Disobedience. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

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But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

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If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

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For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

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She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

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For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

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If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

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Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

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For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

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For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

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Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

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We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

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Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

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And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

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For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

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Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

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Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

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And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

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Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

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Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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