Sin
doctrineRebellion against God — falling short of his glory through thought, word, deed, or the failure to do what is right.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Sin connects to different paths in Scripture:
Sin arises from Temptation and Desire, and leads to Faith and Judgment.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”James 1:13 →
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”Romans 2:4 →
“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”Habakkuk 2:4 →
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”Ephesians 2:8 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 20 verses
“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 her husband with her; and he did eat.”
Read in context →“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“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 children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Read in context →“And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
Read in context →“For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.”
Read in context →“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”
Read in context →“But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.”
Read in context →“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
Read in context →“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
Read in context →“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
Read in context →“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
Read in context →“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Read in context →“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:”
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