28 Bible Verses about Avoiding Sin

for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

'Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil, but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness -- to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

and Peter said unto them, 'Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, 'Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.