Theme · theological
Sin
Sin enters through one act of disobedience in Eden and immediately fractures every relationship — with God, with one another, and with creation itself. By Genesis 6, human wickedness is so pervasive that God grieves having made humanity. The law given at Sinai does not cure sin but exposes it, making transgression conscious and accountable. The prophets diagnose Israel's heart as desperately sick. Paul's argument in Romans is that all have sinned — Jew and Gentile alike — and that the law's purpose was to make sin utterly sinful, driving humanity to the grace that alone can save.
Passages expressing this theme
- Eccl 7:20 — For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Exod 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 c
- Ezek 18:4 — Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
- Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
- Gen 3:6 — 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
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Gen 4:7 — If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
- Gen 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.
- Gen 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
- Isa 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.
- Isa 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isa 59:2 — But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- Jas 1:15 — Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Jas 4:17 — Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Num 32:23 — But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Prov 20:9 — Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 32:1 — Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Ps 119:11 — Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
- Rom 3:23 — For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
- Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
- Rom 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.