Bible Verses About Sin & the Fight Against It
Sin is real and serious, but its power is broken for those who are in Christ. By the Spirit we put it to death and walk in freedom, finding grace to help in time of need. These verses arm you for the daily fight and point you to the One who has overcome.
This is what I mean: walk by the Spirit, and you will never carry out what the flesh desires.
The testing that has gripped you is only what all people face. But God is faithful, and he will not allow the testing to go past your strength. Along with the testing he will also make the way out, so that you are able to hold up under it.
But I tell you, a man who looks at a woman with the aim of wanting her for himself has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Then he said to them, “Take care! Keep yourselves from every kind of greed. Even when someone has more than enough, life does not come from the things a person owns.”
Watch over one another, so that none of you comes short of God’s grace, no bitter root shoots up and causes trouble, defiling many through it,
Wherever jealousy and selfish ambition are found, disorder follows, and every kind of evil deed.
Sin will not be lord over you, for you do not live under the law but under grace.
You were taught to strip off the old self, the self of your former way of life, which is being ruined by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the spirit of your minds; and to put on the new self, created in God’s likeness, in the righteousness and holiness that come from the truth.
Run away from the passions of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, together with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
So place yourselves under God. Stand against the devil, and he will run from you.
We know this: our old self was nailed to the cross with him, so that the body of sin would be stripped of its power and we would no longer serve sin as slaves.