When talking about sin we can be tempted to think in very negative terms since it reminds us of the reason for our distance from God. However, reading each text that talks about sin, you will find a pleasant surprise: sin only points to the beautiful redemptive work of Christ, in whom we are no longer guilty of judgment.
We invite you to reflect on this list of 63 biblical verses about sin in the light of the gospel.
“Then the Lord said to Cain: ‘Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin lies at the door and covets you, but you must dominate it’” (Genesis 4:6-7).
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and greatly sinned against the Lord” (Genesis 13:13).
“Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them: ‘This time I have sinned. The Lord is just, and I and my people are wicked’” (Exodus 9:27).
“When the days of the banquet had passed, Job would send for them and sanctify them, and rising early, offered burnt offerings according to the number of all of them. Because Job said: ‘Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.’ Job always did so” (Job 1:5).
“How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin” (Job 13:23).
“Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions; remember me according to your mercy, for your goodness, O Lord” (Psalm 25:7).
“Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He shows sinners the way” (Psalm 25:8).
“Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities” (Psalm 51:9).
“Fools laugh at sin, but among the upright there is goodwill” (Proverbs 14:9).
“Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a generation of wicked people, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away from Him” (Isaiah 1:4).
“And she will give birth to a Son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).
“Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan, came to him, and confessing their sins, were baptized by John in the Jordan River” (Matthew 3:5-6).
“And they brought him a paralytic lying on a stretcher; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic: ‘Cheer up, son, your sins are forgiven you’” (Matthew 9:2).
“Therefore I tell you, all sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven” (Matthew 12:31).
“And taking a cup, and having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying: ‘Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins’” (Matthew 26:27-28).
“John the Baptist appeared in the desert preaching the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mark 1:4).
“When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, ‘Why does He eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’” (Mark 2:16).
“On hearing this, Jesus said to them: ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners’” (Mark 2:17).
“And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways; to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of his sins” (Luke 1:76-77).
“If you love those who love you, what merit do you have? Because sinners also love those who love them. If they do good to those who do good to them, what merit do they have? For sinners also do the same” (Matthew 6:32-33).
“In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a sinner who repents” (Luke 15:10).
“We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone fears God and does his will, he listens to him ”(John 9:31).
“Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit’” (Acts 2:38).
“Repent therefore and be converted, so that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of relief may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).
“For all those who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law; and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law” (Romans 2:12).
“For by works of the law no human being will be justified before Him; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin” (Romans 3:20).
“Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count” (Romans 4:8).
“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12).
“For as by the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
“What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? No way! We, who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it? (Romans 6:1-2).
“In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11).
“Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you do not obey its lusts; Do not present the members of your body to sin as instruments of iniquity, but present yourselves to God as the living from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness” (Romans 6:12-13).
“But now, having been freed from sin and made servants of God, they have the fruit of sanctification, and as a result eternal life” (Romans 6:22).
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2).
“Flee from fornication. All other sins that a man commits are outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).
“Because I delivered to you first of all the same thing that I received: that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; that he was buried and that he rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
“He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
“That He gave Himself for our sins to free us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father” (Galatians 1:4).
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sins according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
“Do not lay hands on anyone lightly, thus sharing the responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin” (1 Timothy 5:22).
“For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
“For I will have mercy on their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more” (Hebrews 8:12).
“Afterward, when passion has conceived, sin gives birth; and when sin is complete, it brings forth death” (James 1:15).
“For for this purpose you have been called, for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth” (1 Peter 2:21-22).
“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live in righteousness, for by His stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
“For Christ also died for sins once, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God, dead in the flesh but made alive in the spirit” (1 Peter 3:18).
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:8-9).
“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you do not sin. And if someone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Just. He himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world” (1 John 2:1-2).
“You know that Christ appeared to take away sin, and in Him there is no sin” (1 John 3:5).
“We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin; but He who was born of God keeps it and the evil one does not touch it” (1 John 5:18).
“John, to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from of Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and freed us from our sins with his blood ”(Revelation 1: 4-5).