Bible Verses about “repetitive sin”
The Bible contains 36 verses about repetitive 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.”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“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].”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.”
“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”
“¶ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”
“Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.”
“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.”
“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”
“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.”
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
“Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.”
“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
“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.”
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.”
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.”
“¶ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
“If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.”
“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
“I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
“But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”
“For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
“And Jesus looking upon them saith, ‹With men› [it is] ‹impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.›”