100 Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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.

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.