Repeated Sin

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 207 helpful votes 

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there
no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Romans 7:15-25 ESV / 174 helpful votes 

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the
very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that
nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is
right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I
do not want is what I keep on doing. ...

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 148 helpful votes 

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents,
forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven
times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 131 helpful votes 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 124 helpful votes 

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned
you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

John 14:15 ESV / 103 helpful votes 

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 81 helpful votes 

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if
anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes 

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than
over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

John 8:34 ESV / 59 helpful votes 

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave
to sin.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 55 helpful votes 

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also
reap.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes 

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is
the gift of God,

Romans 13:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes 

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not
bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out
God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Luke 15:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes 

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 36 helpful votes 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of
Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 33 helpful votes 

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

James 2:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes 

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for
all of it.

Revelation 3:1-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes 

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven
spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of
being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about
to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember,
then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will
come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes 

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written,
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes 

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his
household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 24 helpful votes 

Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among
robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now
by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on
the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed
by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and
when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds,
pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an
inn and took care of him. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women
exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men
likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for
one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves
the due penalty for their error.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor
the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall
be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his
commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high
above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and
overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. Blessed shall you be in the
city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and
the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and
the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of
the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of
death, that is, the devil,

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that
is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are
arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed
from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present,
I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are
assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of
our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

Mark 16:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be
condemned.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as
yourself.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be
competent, equipped for every good work.

John 17:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods
before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I
the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

1 John 4:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the
world.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his
own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say
to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your
name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I
never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 5:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches
others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever
does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the
test.’”

Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart,
because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies
whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and
lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has
destroyed you.

Romans 7:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came
alive and I died.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither
shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have
passed away.”

Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following
the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is
now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the
passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;
behold, the new has come.

John 14:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become
loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to
the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
Acts 19:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their
practices.

Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say
to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.

Psalm 144:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my
fingers for battle;

1 Samuel 13:22-23 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of
any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no

bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him.
He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 21:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come
from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were
defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they
wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from
the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other
traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper
vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do
your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled
hands?” ...

Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the
sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and
he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should
the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

2 Chronicles 17:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel. He
placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah,
and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured. The LORD was with
Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not
seek the Baals, but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments,
and not according to the practices of Israel. Therefore the LORD established the
kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had
great riches and honor. ...

Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have
gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now
Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time
Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also
brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had
regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So
Cain was very angry, and his face fell. ...

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of
the world until now, no, and never will be.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples
came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the
poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for
they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

1 Samuel 8:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your
sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his
chariots.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of
wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of
God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was
declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his
resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received
grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name
among all the nations, ...

John 18:1-40 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the
Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now
Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his
disciples. So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the
chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them,
“Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them,
“I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. ...

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted
sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus,
covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was
carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and
in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and
Lazarus at his side. ...

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders,
so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to
him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you
not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will
not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him
privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of
your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no
one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and
they will lead many astray. ...

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not
consumed.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Blessed
are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also
do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept
diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...
Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
“Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many
waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and
with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become
drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven
heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned
with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was
written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's
abominations.” ...

Revelation 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice,
which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will
show you what must take place after this.”

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of
God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope
of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at
the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have
been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a
common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and
appoint elders in every town as I directed you— ...

Acts 22:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on
his name.’

John 14:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach
you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 22:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a
knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your
disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when
they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for
the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your
mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If
anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given
to God,” ...

Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way
before the wicked.

Nehemiah 4:17-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a
way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the
other. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The
man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

1 Samuel 13:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the
Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” But every
one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his
mattock, his axe, or his sickle,

Judges 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be
seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Numbers 31:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that
they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.

Numbers 1:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and
Aaron shall list them, company by company.

Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not
set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.
You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. “If you
walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give
you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of
the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape
harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat
your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ...

Jude 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

To execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of
ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh
things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome,
the last state has become worse for them than the first.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the
word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were
so.

John 8:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and
the father of lies.

John 8:34-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave
to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if
the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

John 7:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or
whether I am speaking on my own authority.

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be
full of light,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens,
and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought
up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its
master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful
nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal
corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue
to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an
ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he
dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall
be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for
his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a
donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be
grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. ...

Genesis 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the
garden,

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for
the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and
forsakes them will obtain mercy.

1 Samuel 25:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them
strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred
men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage