23 We have all sinned, and we fall far short of God’s glorious ideal.

23 We have all sinned, and we fall far short of God’s glorious ideal. 24 Yet through the free gift of his grace, God makes us right through Christ Jesus who sets us free.

20 For no one is made right before God by doing what the law requires. The law only helps us recognize what sin really is.

23 The wage sin pays is death, but God’s free gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

6 We’ve all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away.

4 All those who sin are lawless, because sin is lawlessness.

1 So there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

12 Don’t let sin have control over your mortal body, don’t give in to its temptations, 13 and don’t use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God. 14 Sin won’t rule over you, because you’re not under law but under grace.

15 So then, should we sin because we’re not under law, but under grace? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that if you make yourselves someone’s slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him. 17 Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned. 18 Now that you’ve been freed from sin, you’ve become slaves of doing what is morally right.

15 So then, should we sin because we’re not under law, but under grace? Of course not!

14 We realize that the law is spiritual; but I’m all-too-human,* a slave to sin. 15 I really don’t understand what I’m doing. I do the things I don’t want to do, and what I hate doing, that’s what I do! 16 But if I’m saying that I do what I don’t want to, this shows that I admit the law is good and right. 17 So it’s no longer me who does this, but sin living in me—

34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

8 If we claim to be sinless we only fool ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, he is trustworthy and right so that he can forgive us our sins and make us clean from all that is not right in us.

9 But if we confess our sins, he is trustworthy and right so that he can forgive us our sins and make us clean from all that is not right in us.

6 If we claim to share this friendship with him and yet go on living* in darkness, we’re lying, and not living in the truth.

1 God, please be gracious to me, because of your trustworthy love, because of your infinite kindness* please wipe away my sins.

2 Wash away all my guilt; cleanse me from my sin.

4 I have sinned against you, you alone. I have done evil in your sight. So you are right in what you say, and fair when you judge.

5 It’s true that I was born guilty—sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

6 But you want truth on the inside; you teach me wisdom deep within.

7 Purify me with hyssop* so I can be clean; wash me so I can be whiter than snow.

8 Please let me hear joy and happiness again; let the bones you have crushed be glad once more.

9 Turn your face away from looking at my sins; please wipe away my guilt.

5 Then I confessed my sins to you. I did not hide the wrongs I had done. I said to myself, "I will confess my disobedience to the Lord," and you forgave the guilt of my sins. Selah.

1 How happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven, whose sins are covered.*

11 Lord, because of your nature, forgive my many sins.

6 Remember, Lord, your compassion and trustworthy love—they are eternal!

7 Please don’t remember the sins of my youth when I rebelled against you. Instead, remember me according to your trustworthy love, remember me because of your goodness, Lord.

12 Who’s aware of their own mistakes? Don’t punish me for these faults I’m unaware of.

13 People who hide their sins won’t succeed, but those who confess and renounce their sins will be shown kindness.

24 He took the consequences of our sins on himself in his body on the cross, so that we could die to sin and live rightly.* "By his wounds you are healed."*

21 She will give birth to a son and you shall call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

21 God made Jesus, who never personally sinned, experience the consequences of sin so that we could have a character that is good and right just as God is good and right.*

28 so too for Christ—having been sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people, he will come again, not to deal with sin, but to save those who wait for him.

8 Those who sin are of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. That’s the reason why the Son of God came—to destroy what the devil has done.

18 We recognize that those who are born of God don’t keep on sinning. The Son of God* protects them and the devil cannot harm them.

5 So kill your worldly nature—sexual sin, immorality, lust, evil desires, greedily wanting to have more—this is the worship of idols.

3 Sexual immorality or any kind of indecency or greed should never be mentioned concerning you, as God’s people should not be doing such things.

11 Don’t have anything to do with the pointless things that darkness produces—instead expose them. 12 It’s shameful even to speak about the things such people do secretly,

26 Don’t sin by getting angry; don’t let evening come and find you still mad—

1 My friends, if someone is led astray by sin, you who are spiritual should bring them back with a gentle spirit. Watch out that you don’t get tempted too.

1 My friends, if someone is led astray by sin, you who are spiritual should bring them back with a gentle spirit. Watch out that you don’t get tempted too. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, for in this way you fulfill the law of Christ.

15 If a brother* sins against you,* go and point out the wrong to him, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you’ve won your brother over.

15 If a brother* sins against you,* go and point out the wrong to him, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you’ve won your brother over.

6 But anyone who makes one of these little ones who trust in me sin, it would be better for them to have a large millstone* tied around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

3 Why do you see the speck that’s in your brother’s eye? Don’t you notice the plank that’s in your own eye?

14 For if you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

16 Admit the wrongs you’ve done to each other, and pray for one another so that you’ll be healed. Earnest prayer from those who live right is very effective.

17 For it is a sin if you know to do what’s right but don’t do it.

8 Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.

4 You adulterous people! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God.

10 blessings and curses come from the same mouth! Friends, it shouldn’t be this way!

8 Most of all, you should love one another very deeply, for love covers many of the wrong things people do.

1 Happy are those who don’t follow the advice of the wicked. They refuse to adopt the ways of sinful people, and they don’t make fun of others.

133 Tell me by your word the way I should go, and don’t let any kind of evil control me.

9 Honest people will live in safety, but those who behave deceitfully will be caught out.

45 Good people produce what’s good from the good things they value that they have stored inside them. Bad people produce what’s bad from the bad things they have stored inside them. What fills people’s minds spills out in what they say.

9 Don’t you know those who are unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be fooled! People who are immoral, worship idols, commit adultery, are sexual perverts, homosexuals, 10 thieves, greedy, drunkards, abusers, or cheats, will not inherit the kingdom of God.

4 Pilate went outside once more and said to them, "I’m bringing him out here to you so you’ll know I find him not guilty of any crime." 5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. "Look, here’s the man," said Pilate.

6 When the chief priests and the guards saw Jesus, they shouted out, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

"You take him and crucify him," Pilate answered. "I find him not guilty."

23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you hold them unforgiven, unforgiven they remain."

7 If you were doing what’s right, then you’d be looking happy.* But if you don’t do what’s right, then sin will be like an animal crouching outside your home, ready to pounce on you. It wants to have you, but you must be the one in control."