Bible Verses about “human sin”
The Bible contains 38 verses about human sin across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
“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:”
“¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.”
“¶ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
“(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”
“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”
“¶ Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
“¶ 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 sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;”
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:”
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”
“And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”
“But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
“And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
“And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:”
“¶ And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”
“And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.”
“Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”
“¶ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
“And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”
“¶ And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?”
“¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:”
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”
“They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
“Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:”
“Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:”
“Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:”
“And the way of peace have they not known:”