Quotations about sin

But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a ** fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts;

and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings.

But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; nay, still more was he filled with arrogancy, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body.

And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, †† showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;

so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption.

And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.

The Second Book of the Maccabees 9:5-10

{21:12} A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

{21:13} but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:

{21:14} behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

{21:15} and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'"

{21:16} Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians:

{21:17} and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

{21:18} After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

{21:19} It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases.

The Second Book of Chronicles 21:12-19

{10:13} So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

{10:14} and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

The First Book of Chronicles 10:13-14

{4:1} Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

{4:2} There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

{4:3} Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

Hosea 4:1-3

Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.

The First Book of Samuel 15:22-23

{6:11} Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh. I am weary with holding in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
{6:12} Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh."
{6:13} "For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 6:11-13

Say not, I sinned, and what happened to me?
For the Lord is longsuffering.
Concerning atonement, be not without fear,
To add sin upon sins:
And say not, His compassion is great;
He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins:
For mercy and wrath are with him,
And his indignation will rest upon sinners.
Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord;
And put not off from day to day:
For suddenly will the wrath of the Lord come forth;
And you will perish in the time of vengeance.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 5:4-7

Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness;
but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.

The Wisdom of Solomon 2:23-24

Sinners never experience true interior joy or peace, for "there is no peace to the wicked," says the Lord.

Thomas à Kempis "The Imitation Of Christ"

{8:12} And now who are you to have tempted God this day, and to stand among the children of men instead of God?

{8:13} And now test the Lord Almighty, but you will never know anything.

{8:14} For you cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can you perceive the things which he thinks; so then how can you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind or comprehend his purpose? No, my brethren, do not provoke the Lord our God to anger.

{8:15} "For if he will not help us within these five days, he has power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.

{8:16} Do not bind the plans of the Lord our God; for God is not like man as if he could be threatened; neither is he like the son of man so that he would be wavering.

{8:17} Therefore let us wait for salvation from him and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it pleases him.

The Book of Judith 8:12-17

{31:16} Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

{31:17} Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'

{31:18} I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

Deuteronomy 31:16-18

{3:16} To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:16

{3:17} To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

{3:18} It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

{3:19} By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:17-19

{4:17} To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

The Letter from James 4:17

{4:1} Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
{4:2} You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
{4:3} You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
{4:4} You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The Letter from James 4:1-4

{1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
{1:14} But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
{1:15} Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

The Letter from James 1:13-15

{13:4} Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

The Letter to the Hebrews 13:4

{6:9} ...Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
{6:10} nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:9-10

{6:7} For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
{6:8} But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
{6:9} But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
{6:10} For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
{6:11} But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
{6:12} Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Paul's First Letter to Timothy 6:7-12

{81:13} Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
{81:14} I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries...

The Psalms 81:13-14

{2:13}This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
{2:14}Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
{2:15}Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
{2:16}For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

Malachi 2:13-16

...transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Isaiah 59:13-15

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

Jeremiah 5:6

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In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

Nehemiah 13:23-27

Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Joshua 7:10-12

...that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment;

Matthew 5:22

True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them.

There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man.

Thomas À Kempis

WHEN a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease.

Thomas À Kempis

And bury me decently, and your mother with me; but delay no longer at Nineveh. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus, who brought him up; how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he took notice of him again.

The Book of Tobit 14:10

Do not do to any man the things which you yourself hate.

The Book of Tobit 4:15

Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

Genesis 4:6-7

Turn away your eye from a comely woman, And gaze not on another's beauty: By the beauty of a woman many have been led astray; And herewith love is kindled as a fire.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 9:8

When the soul parts from its body and desires to go to its Creator in heaven, the evil spirits prevent the soul and show to it its sins. If the soul has done more good deeds than evil, they cannot keep it; but if the sins outweigh the good deeds, they keep the soul for some time, shut it up in the prison where it cannot know God, and torment it as much as God's power allows them, until that soul, by means of prayers of the Church and good deeds done for its sake by those who are still on earth, should be granted forgiveness.

"Those who believe in the Holy Trinity and take as frequently as possible the Holy Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ our Saviour's Body and Blood—such people can rise to heaven directly, with no hindrances, and the holy angels defend them, and the holy saints of God pray for their salvation, since they have lived righteously. No one, however, takes care of the wicked and depraved heretics, who do nothing useful during their lives, and live in disbelief and heresy. The angels can say nothing in their defence.

"When a soul proves to be so sinful and impure before God that it has no hope of salvation, the evil spirits immediately bring it down into the abyss, where their own place of eternal torment is also. There the lost souls are kept until the time of the Lord's Second Coming. Then they will unite with their bodies and will incur torment in the fiery hell together with the devils.

St. Theodora's Journey Through the Aerial Toll-Houses

In all your matters remember your last end, And you will never do amiss.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 7:36

Nothing so mars and defiles the heart of man as impure attachment to created things.

Thomas à Kempis "The Imitation Of Christ"

For the hope of the unthankful will melt as the winter's hoar frost, And will flow away as water that has no use.

The Wisdom of Solomon 16:29

Exalt not yourself in the counsel of your soul; That your soul be not torn in pieces as a bull.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 6:2

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Gregory David Roberts

Sin always causes suffering.

Father Alexander - a Catholic Priest

If you have opened your mouth against a friend, fear not; For there may be a reconciling; Except it be for upbraiding, and arrogance, and disclosing of a secret, and a treacherous blow: For these things every friend will flee.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 22:22

My son, have you sinned? add no more thereto; And make supplication for your former sins.

Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent; For if you draw near it will bite you: The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, Slaying the souls of men.

All iniquity is as a two-edged sword; Its stroke has no healing.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 21:1-3

After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly:

and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion Geber.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works." The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

The Second Book of Chronicles 20:35-37

One that casts a stone on high casts it on his own head; And a deceitful stroke will open wounds.

He that digs a pit will fall into it; And he that sets a snare will be taken therein.

He that does evil things, they will roll upon him, And he will not know whence they have come to him.

Mockery and reproach are from the arrogant; And vengeance, as a lion, will lie in wait for him.

They that rejoice at the fall of the godly will be taken in a snare; And anguish will consume them before they die.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 27:25-29

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Proverbs 28:18

He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Proverbs 28:13

"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

Isaiah 48:22

"Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself: behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance; and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'"

The Second Book of Chronicles 21:12-15

Woe to us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5:16

Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and until this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath has not turned from us.

The Book of Baruch 1:13

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp." All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:32-36

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

Daniel 4:27

Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Ezekiel 36:16-17

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