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Want to know what the Bible says about What Is Sin? Here are 117 Bible verses about What Is Sin from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 John 3:4 NIV
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
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James 4:17 NIV
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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1 John 5:17 NIV
All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
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1 John 1:9 NIV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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Galatians 5:19-21 NIV
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Romans 14:23 NIV
But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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Romans 5:12 NIV
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned
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Psalm 51:5 NIV
Surely I was sinful at birth,
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
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