100 Bible Verses about Removing Sin

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4,937 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3,594 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3,438 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 John 3:5 ESV / 3,382 helpful votes

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 3,243 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2,967 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2,581 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2,497 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 2:1-2 ESV / 2,478 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 2,414 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 2,365 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 2,293 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Job 11:14 ESV / 2,291 helpful votes

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2,207 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

James 4:17 ESV / 2,156 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 2,099 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2,048 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 1,965 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 1,934 helpful votes

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,908 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 3:16 ESV / 1,839 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 1,807 helpful votes

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 1,794 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 1,770 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

1 John 1:7-9 ESV / 1,763 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 1,752 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 1,751 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 1,681 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 1,677 helpful votes

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 1,667 helpful votes

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 1,648 helpful votes

Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Matthew 18:15-20 ESV / 1,647 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,636 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 1,553 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 1,552 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 1,550 helpful votes

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,535 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 1,516 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 1,496 helpful votes

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,484 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 1,474 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 1,472 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 1,452 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1,428 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 1,418 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,341 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Joshua 7:1-26 ESV / 1,316 helpful votes

But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel. Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water. ...

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 1,311 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

James 4:7 ESV / 1,278 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 1,270 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1,262 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

John 1:29 ESV / 1,243 helpful votes

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 1,202 helpful votes

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Titus 3:10 ESV / 1,191 helpful votes

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,171 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

John 3:3 ESV / 1,148 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 1,141 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 1,085 helpful votes

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 1,078 helpful votes

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 1,076 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 1,057 helpful votes

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 1,055 helpful votes

So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 1,050 helpful votes

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

1 John 1:3 ESV / 1,049 helpful votes

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 1,031 helpful votes

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 987 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 966 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

James 1:15 ESV / 958 helpful votes

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 948 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 5:19-20 ESV / 935 helpful votes

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 913 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

1 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 908 helpful votes

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

Romans 13:14 ESV / 906 helpful votes

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 894 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 879 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Acts 22:16 ESV / 864 helpful votes

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 849 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 842 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 829 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 813 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

1 Corinthians 5:13 ESV / 812 helpful votes

God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Titus 2:14 ESV / 810 helpful votes

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 802 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 800 helpful votes

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 779 helpful votes

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 779 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Psalm 51:1-2 ESV / 772 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 761 helpful votes

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

John 8:34 ESV / 749 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Romans 6:1 ESV / 709 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 696 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 679 helpful votes

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 661 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 608 helpful votes

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Acts 17:30 ESV / 600 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 588 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV / 586 helpful votes

If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

James 4:2 ESV / 568 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

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