Sin
Is Of The Devil
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil
sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father
of it.
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All
Unrighteousness Is Sin
1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto
death. Omission of what we know to be good is. James 4:17 Therefore
to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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Whatever
is not of faith is Sin
Romans 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he
eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
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The
thought of foolishness is Sin
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner
is an abomination to men. All the imaginations of the unrenewed
heart are.
Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said
in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have
done.
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Sin
Described As Coming from the heart
Matthew
15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
The Fruit Of Lust.
James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Sting of Death.
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
Rebellion against God.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the
LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou
didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Joshua 1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment,
and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest
him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
Works of darkness.
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Dead works.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation
of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 9:14 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? The abominable
thing that God hates.
Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD:
but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Jeremiah 44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable
thing that I hate.
Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to
cut off all Judah. Reproaching the Lord.
Numbers 15:30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether
he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the
LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy
hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed
thy name.
Defiling.
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own
eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
Deceitful.
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To
day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Disgraceful.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach
to any people.
Often very great.
Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt
it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the
water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
1 Samuel 2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great
before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Often mighty.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty
sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside
the poor in the gate from their right.
Often manifold.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty
sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside
the poor in the gate from their right.
Often presumptuous.
Psalms 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and
I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Sometimes open and manifest.
1 Timothy 5:24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before
to judgment; and some men they follow after.
Sometimes secret.
Psalms 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins in the light of thy countenance.
Besetting.
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us,
Like scarlet and crimson
Isaiah 1:18 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.
Reaching unto heaven
Revelation 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities.
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Sin
Entered into the world by Adam
Genesis 3:6-7 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. And the eyes
of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
All men are conceived and born
in.
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat
a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name
Seth:
Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be
clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my
mother conceive me.
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Scripture
concludes all under Sin
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe.
No man is without Sin
1 Kings 8:46 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;
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth
good, and sinneth not.
Christ
Alone Was Without Sin
2 Corinthians 5:21 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.
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted
like as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins;
and in him is no sin.
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GOD's
Position About Sin
Abominates Sin
Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,
are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven
are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands
that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that
speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Marks Sin
Job 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit
me from mine iniquity
Remembers Sin
Revelation 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities
Is Provoked to Jealousy by Sin
1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed,
above all that their fathers had done
Is Provoked to Anger by Sin
1 Kings 16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made
thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way
of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me
to anger with their sins;
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GOD
Alone Can Forgive Sin
Exodus 34:7 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.
Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses,
though we have rebelled against him;
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive
sins but God only?
Recompenses Sin
Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their
sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable
things.
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double
unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath
filled fill to her double.
Punishes Sin
Isaiah 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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The
Law And Sin
Is transgressed By Every Sin
James 2:10-11 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend
in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit
adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery,
yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
Gives Knowledge of Sin
Romans 3:20 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.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay,
I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except
the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Shows Exceeding Sinfulness of
of Sin
Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by
that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding
sinful.
Made To Restrain Sin
1 Timothy 1:9-10 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous
man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers
of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile
themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured
persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine;
By its Strictness Stirs up Sin
Romans 7:5 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.
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought
in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived
me, and by it slew me.
Is the Strength of Sin
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
Curses those Guilty of Sin
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under
the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do
them.
No Man Can Cleanse himself from
Sin
Coming In The Near Future
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