Bible Verses about “willful sin”
The Bible contains 24 verses about willful sin across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
“Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.”
“In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.”
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.”
“All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.”
“¶ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;”
“In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
“¶ But the soul that doeth [ought] presumptuously, [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.”
“And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.”
“And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.”
“Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.”
“Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him.”