100 Bible Verses About Sin

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

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

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

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

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,)

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: