Sin

SIN

GODS DEFINITION OF SIN IN THE ABSOLUTE SENSE OF THE WORD
DOES A CHRISTIAN STILL SIN?
SHOULD WE CONTINUE IN SIN?
HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN OVERCOME SIN?

GODS DEFINITION OF SIN IN THE ABSOLUTE SENSE OF THE WORD

ROMANS 14:23 NKJV
     But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

JAMES 4:17 NKJV
     Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

1 JOHN 3:4 NKJV
     Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

1 JOHN 5:17 RSV
     All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.

DOES A CHRISTIAN STILL SIN?

1 TIMOTHY 1:15 NKJV
     This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

1 JOHN 1:8-2:1 NKJV
8    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9    If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10   If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
1     My children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

SHOULD WE CONTINUE IN SIN?

ROMANS 5:20--6:2 NKJV
20   Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace
abounded much more,
21   so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1    What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2    Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

ROMANS 6:14-16 NKJV
14   For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15   What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16   Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's
slaves whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN OVERCOME SIN?

PROVERBS 16:6 NKJV
In mercy and truth Atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.

PSALM 19:13 NKJV
     Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

PSALM 39:1 NKJV
     I said, "I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me."

PSALM 119:11 NKJV
     Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

1 PETER 4:8 NKJV
     And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."

1 JOHN 1:8-9 NKJV
8    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9    If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

ROMANS 6:1-23 NKJV
1    What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2    Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
3    Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4    Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5    For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6    knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7    For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8    Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9    knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
10   For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11   Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12   Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13   And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14   For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15   What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16   Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17   But God be thankful that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18   And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19   I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
20   For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21   What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22   But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
23   For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ROMANS 8:1-14 NKJV
1    There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3    For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4    that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5    For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6    For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7    Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
8    So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9    But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10   And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11   But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12   Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13   For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

HEBREWS 12:1-14 NKJV
1    Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let is lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2    looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3    For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
4    You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
5    And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6    For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."
7    If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
8    But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9    Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10   For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit,
that we may be partakers of His holiness.
11   Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12   Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13   and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14   Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

EPHESIANS 6:10-18 NKJV
10   Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
11   Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12   For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13   Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14   Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15   and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16   above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
17   And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
18   praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--