25 Bible Verses about Avoiding Sin

For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

So when a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.

Do not be so misled: "Evil companionships corrupt good character."

But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.

I solemnly say to you, men will be forgiven for all their sins and all the abusive things they say. But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."

No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, intrigues, dissensions, party-spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman so as to have an evil desire for her at once has already committed adultery with her in his heart,

So then, my dearly beloved, keep on running from idolatry.

You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.

"Go in by the narrow gate, for broad and roomy is the road that leads to destruction, and many are going in by it. But narrow is the gate and hard is the road that leads to life, and few are they that find it.

Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have a right to the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins and suffer from her plagues.

And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but no one who speaks abusively about the Holy Spirit will be forgiven.