- Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
- Righteousness exalteth a nation:
but sin is a reproach to any people. - Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against thee. - For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
- 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.
- But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed. - I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- Wash you, make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil. - I acknowledge my sin unto thee,
and mine iniquity have I not hid.
I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord;
and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- The way of the Lord is strength to the upright:
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul;
but he that despiseth his ways shall die. - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin.
- I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto me;
for I have redeemed thee. - To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
- 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.
- Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
- Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- When I kept silence, my bones waxed old
through my roaring all the day long. - As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - 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.
- For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Bible verse of the day
My times are in thy hand:deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.