– In the AT, sin is considered more under the aspect of external action, as an attack on the order established by God, especially in relation to the covenant; while the NT predominantly insists on the aspect of moral judgment and the internal responsibility of those who sin: in Adam all sinned (original sin):
Rom 3:23 : Indeed, all have sinned and all fall short of the glory of God.
Rom 5:12-21 : Therefore, as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin.
– The various terms used in the Bible to indicate sin refer to the failure of an objective, the deviation of a project, the total perdition of man, disobedience to God:
Gen 3:1-2 : Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat the fruit of every tree in the garden?
– Fleeing occasions of sin:
Eclo 21,2 : Flee from sin as one flees from a serpent.
Eclo 26,28 : It will be difficult for the one who negotiates to avoid mistakes, and the tavern keeper will not escape the sin of the tongue.
Eclo 28,10 : Avoid quarrels and you will reduce sins.
Mt 5,29-30 : If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.
Mt 18,8s : Therefore, if your hand or your foot causes you to fall into sin, cut them off and throw them away from you.
– Sin is an offense against a loving God:
Is 41,8-9 : Jacob I chose, offspring of Abraham, my friend. You are my servant, I chose you, and I did not reject you.
Is 44,21-22 : I have made your iniquities disappear like a cloud, and your sins like a mist.
Is 49,15 : Can a woman forget the one who suckles? […] if she forgot him, I would never forget you.
Is 64,7 : There is no one to invoke your name […] and you let us go to our sins.
– Must be avoided:
Ps 4,5 : Tremble, but without sinning; reflect in your hearts, when you are in your beds, and be silent.
Ps 33:14 : Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from deceitful words.
Ps 38 : 2 : I will watch over my actions, so that I will not sin with my tongue anymore.
Ps 96:10 : The Lord loves those who hate evil, he watches over the souls of his servants and delivers them from the hands of the wicked.
Pr 8:13 : The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride, arrogance, a perverse way, a lying mouth: this is what I hate.
Amos 5:15 : Hate evil, love good, make justice reign in your assemblies.
Jn 3,1-10 : Go to Nineveh, the great city, and make known to it the message that I commanded you.
Jo 5,14 : Behold, you have been healed; sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.
Jn 8:11 : She replied: “No one, Lord”. Then Jesus said to him, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
Rom 6:11-12 : Therefore, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 12:9: Let your charity not be faked. Abhor evil, cling solidly to good.
Eph 4,26-27 : Even in anger, do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your resentment.
Col 3 :5 : Mortify therefore your members in what is earthly: lewdness, impurity.
1Th 5:22 : Beware of all kinds of evil.
2Tm 2,19 : Renounce iniquity all who pronounce the name of the Lord.
Heb 12 :1 : Surrounded as we are by such a cloud of witnesses, let us free ourselves from the chains of sin.
1Pt 2: 1: Cast away therefore all malice, all craftiness, pretense, envy, and every kind of slander.
– The sinner is detested, abandoned by God:
Ps 5,5-7 : For you are not a God to whom evil pleases, the evil one could not dwell with you.
Pr 15 :9 : The Lord abhors the way of evil, but loves what is tied to justice.
Wis 14:9: Indeed, God hates both the wicked and his wickedness.
Mt 7,23 : And yet I will say to them: I never knew you. Get away from me, you evil workers!
– And is punished by God:
Ex 23,21 : And listen to what he tells you. Do not resist him, for he would not forgive your fault.
Leviticus 20:20 : If a man lies with his aunt, […] they will bear their iniquity and die childless.
Josh 24:19 : You will not be able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God, a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellions.
Ps 74:11 : I will bring down all the powers of the wicked, while the power of the righteous will be exalted.
Ps 88,31-33 : If, however, your children abandon my Law, […] I will punish their transgression with a rod.
Pr 22:8 : He who sows evil reaps torment: the rod of his anger will smite him.
Ezekiel 18:4: It is to me that lives belong, the life of the father and the life of the son. Why, it is the culprit who will die.
Dn 9,11 : The curse and the imprecation that appear in the Law of Moses, […] fell on us, because we sinned against him.
Revelation 21:8 : The lukewarm, the infidels, […] will have as their lot the pool burning with fire and brimstone, the second death.
– And the consequences of sin are death:
Gen 2:17 : Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die.
Gen 3:19 : Until you return to the land from which you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Ps 89,3 : You reduce man to dust, and say: “Children of men, return to dust”.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 : All are going to the same place. All come out of dust and to dust they return.
Eccl 12.7 : Before the dust returns to the earth to become what it was; and before the breath of life returns to God.
Ezekiel 18:4: It is to me that lives belong, the life of the father and the life of the son. Why, it is the culprit who will die.
Rom 5:12 : Therefore, as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin.
Rom 6:23 : For the wages of sin is death, while the gift of God is eternal life in Christ.
Col 2,13 : Dead for your sins and for the uncircumcision of your flesh, he called you to life again.
Jas 1,15 : Concupiscence, after conceiving, gives birth to sin; and sin, once consummated, brings forth death.
– Curse of the Ground:
Gen 3,17-18 : You ate from the tree that I had forbidden you to eat, cursed be the ground because of you.
– Concupiscence:
Gen 3:7 : Then his eyes were opened; and when they saw that they were naked, they took fig leaves.
– Fear of God:
Gen 3,8-9 : The man and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God.
– Corruption of human nature:
Gen 6 :5 : The Lord saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth.
Gen 8:21 : I will no longer curse the ground because of man – because the thoughts of his heart are evil.
Romans 1:18-32 : The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and perversity.
Rom 5:19 : Just as by one man’s disobedience all were made sinners.
– Short and hectic life:
Job 14,1-2 : A man born of a woman lives for a short time and is full of miseries.
Eccl 6:12 : For who can know what is good for man in life, during the days of his vain existence?
Wis 2,1 : Short is our life, and full of sorrows; for death there is no remedy.
Eclo 40,1-10 : A great restlessness has been imposed on all men, and a heavy yoke weighs down the children of Adam.
Eclo 41,1-2 : O death, how bitter your memory is for the man who lives in peace in the midst of his goods.
Is 40,6-7 : “Cry out!” – said a voice – I replied: “What shall I cry? Every creature is like grass.”
Jas 1,10-11 : The rich, on the contrary, from their humiliation, because they will pass away like the flower of the field.
– Submitted to the judgment of God:
Rom 2:16 : This will clearly appear on the day when, according to my Gospel, God will judge the secret actions of men.
Rom 5:16 : Nor was the gift the same as the consequences of the sin of one.
1Pt 1:17 : If you invoke as Father the one who, without distinction of persons, judges each according to his works.
Rev 20,12-13 : And the dead were judged according to what was written in that book, according to their works.
– Exclusion from your Kingdom:
1Cor 6:10 : Neither drunkards, nor slanderers, nor thieves will possess the Kingdom of God.
Gal 5,19-21a : The works of the flesh are these: fornication, impurity […] those who practice them will not inherit the Kingdom of God!
Eph 5 :5 : No dissolute, or impure, or covetous – true idolaters! – will have an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ.
– Inner bondage:
John 8:34 : Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who gives himself over to sin is his slave.
– All men are sinners and are subject to sin:
1 Kings 8:46 : When they sin against you – because there is no man who does not sin.
2Ch 6,36 : When they have sinned against you – for there is no man without sin.
Job 14:4 : Who will make the clean out of the unclean? Nobody!
Job 15:14 : What is man that he should be pure? Can what is born of a woman be just?
Job 25 :4: Would man be righteous before God? Is he who is born of a woman pure?
Ps 13:3 : But they all went astray and perverted; there is no one else who does good.
Ps 50,7 : Behold, I was born in guilt, my mother conceived me in sin.
Pr 20,9 : Who can say: “My heart is pure, I am clean from sin?”.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 : There is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Jn 8:7 : Whoever of you is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at him.
Rom 1,18–3,20.23 : The wrath of God is manifested from the height of heaven against all the ungodliness and perversity of men.
Jas 3,2 : Because we all fall at many points.
1Jn 1,8-9 : If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 2,1-2 : This I write to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone sins, we have an intercessor with the Father.
– The NT sometimes mentions sin in a broad sense, as a negative power that exists and is active in the world:
Jo 8,21 : I go away, and you will seek me and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot go.
Jn 16,8-9 : And when he comes, he will convince the world about sin, righteousness and judgment.
Rom 7:14-23 : We know, in fact, that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
– Other times it refers to specific acts – sin against the truth:
Jo 8,40.45-46 : But now you seek to take my life, I who told you the truth that I heard from God!
– Against the Holy Spirit:
Mt 12,31-32 : Every sin and every blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not.
Mk 3,28-29 : All sins will be forgiven the sons of men, even their blasphemies.
Luke 12:10 : But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not receive forgiveness.
Heb 6,4-6 : Those who were once enlightened tasted the heavenly gift, they partook of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Heb 10:26 : After we have received and known the truth […] there will no longer be a sacrifice to atone for this sin.
– Against the brothers:
Rm 14,13.15.20 : Let us therefore stop judging one another; […] take care not to put a stumbling block before your brother.
1Cor 8,9-10 : Beware, however: that this freedom of yours does not become an occasion for the fall of the weak.
– No one can purify himself:
Job 9,29-30 : I am sure to be condemned! What is the use of tiring myself in vain?
Ps 48 :8 : But no man can save himself, nor pay his ransom to God.
Pr 20,9 : Who can say: “My heart is pure, I am clean from sin?”.
Jr 2,22 : Even if you washed yourself with potash, and used a lot of soap, your sin would continue to stain you.
Rom 7:14-23 : We know, in fact, that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
– Only God can:
Ps 50,9.12 : Sprinkle myself with a branch of hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me and I will become whiter than snow.
Is 1,18 : If your sins are scarlet, they will become white as snow!
– In Christ Jesus, cancel sins:
Mt 1:21 : She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
Jn 1:29 : Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
Acts 4:12 : There is salvation in no one else, for no other name under heaven has been given to men.
Eph 1 :7: Through his blood we have Redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Col 1:14 : In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
1Jn 1 :7 : And the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Is 53,5 : The punishment that saves us weighed on him; we were healed thanks to his wounds.
– Jesus proclaims and realizes the kingdom of God, defeating sin:
Mt 4,23 : Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Mt 9:13 : I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Mt 10,1.7 : Jesus gathered his twelve disciples. He gave them the power to cast out unclean spirits.
Mt 11,4-5 : Go and tell John what you have heard and what you have seen: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed.
Mt 26:28 : This is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant, shed for many men in remission of sins.
Mk 2,17 : The healthy do not need a doctor, but the sick do; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Lk 5:32 : I did not come to call the righteous to conversion, but sinners.
Lk 19,9-10 : Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.
– Through his blood:
Mt 20,28 : Just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve and to give his life.
Mt 26:28 : This is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant, shed for many men in remission of sins.
Rom 8,3-4 : God made it. By sending, on account of sin, his own Son in flesh like that of sin.
– He became sin for our deliverance:
Romans 4:25 : Who was delivered for our sins and was raised for our justification.
1Cor 15,3 : That Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
2Cor 5:21 : God made him to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Gal 1 :4: Who gave himself for our sins, to free us from the perversity of the present world.
1Jn 2:2 : He is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
– In Him we have redemption and forgiveness of sins:
Eph 1 :7: Through his blood we have Redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Col 1:14 : In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
– In Baptism we participate in his victory over sin:
Rom 6:1-14 : Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
– Sin must be confessed:
Job 33:27 : I sinned, I violated the law, but God did not treat me according to my mistakes.
Ps 31 :5: Then I confessed my sin to you, and I no longer concealed my guilt.
Ps 50,5-6 : I acknowledge my iniquity, my sin is always before me.
Pr 28:15 : A roaring lion, a hungry bear: such is the wicked who rules over a poor people.
Is 59:12 : For our faults are many before you, and our sins bear witness against us.
Is 64,4-5 : No ear has heard, no eye has seen another god save those who count on him.
Lm 3,40-41 : Let us examine, let us scrutinize our conduct, and let us return to the Lord.
Br 1,15–3,8 : The Lord our God is righteous. We, however, must, today, blush with shame.
Dan 3,25-43 : Be blessed and praised, Lord, God of our fathers! May your name be glorious for centuries!
Dan 9,4-19 : I pleaded with the Lord my God and made my confession to him.
1Jn 1,8-10 : If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
– And there is joy in heaven for every sinner who returns to God:
Mt 18,13-14 : And if he finds it, he rejoices more than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
Lc 15,7.10.32 : Thus there will be greater joy in heaven over a single sinner who does penance.
– God is merciful to the repentant sinner:
2 Sam 12:13 : “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan answered him, “The Lord forgives your sin; thou shalt not die.”
Eclo 17,21-28 : Convert to the Lord, abandon your sins.
Is 1,16ss : Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from before my eyes.
Is 44:22 : I made your iniquities disappear like a cloud, and your sins like a mist.
Jer 3:14 : Return, you backsliding children – oracle of the Lord -, for I am your Lord.
Mt 3 :6 : They confessed their sins and were baptized by him in the waters of the Jordan.
Jas 5:16 : Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another.
1Jn 1,9 : If we acknowledge our sins, (God is there) faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
– Atonement and remission of sins by Jesus Christ:
Is 53,4-12 : Truly, he took our infirmities upon himself, and carried our sufferings.
Mt 26:28 : This is mine
