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Bible Verses About Sin and Punishment

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

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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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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

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If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

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The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

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Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

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If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

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For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

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And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

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Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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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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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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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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Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

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This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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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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The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

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

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

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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

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But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

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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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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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He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

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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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Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

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When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

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Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

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