For which reason God delivered them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, that they might dishonor their bodies among themselves;

Behold, your house is left to you deserted.

who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

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

And Adam was not deceived: but the woman being deceived, was in transgression;

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who did signs in his presence, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brim stone.

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day, lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

And he said to them: You set yourselves forth as righteous before men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men, is detestable in the sight of God.

and delivered righteous Lot, wearied out with the licentious conduct of the lawless,

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

After this Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him: Behold, you have been restored to health; sin no more, lest some worse thing befall you.

She said: No one, sir. Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

For I delivered to you among the first things, that which I also received: That Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us, and that has washed us from our sins in his own blood,

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.

And he is the expiation for our sins: not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. To whomever much has been given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have intrusted much, of him will they ask the more.

me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did this, as did also your rulers.

And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic: Son, your sins are forgiven you.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

And that servant who knew his lord's will, but made no preparation, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Then will he answer them, saying: Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.

But alas for you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have left undone.

For from the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, lewd actions, thefts, false testimonies, impious words.

So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

For which reason, you are without excuse, man, who ever you are, that judge; for in that in which you judge an other, you condemn yourself; for you who judge, practice the same things.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

Every one that works sin, works also transgression of law: and sin is transgression of law.

Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Jesus answered and said to them: You err, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.