Sin

Concerning Death

Job 30:23

… By great holiness, I mean great horror of sin and great longing after perfect purity. When a man feels sin within him, he hates it and longs to …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… Awful as it is to sin when unwarned, it is still more horrible to persevere in sin in the teeth of rebuke and after gentle, loving expostulations. What …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… Two things which unaided reason has always failed to grasp and always will—sin and love! Sin for its thunder and love for its music—sin for its …

Morning, January 12

1Co 3:23

… When tempted to sin, reply, “I cannot do this great wickedness, for I am Christ's.” Immortal principles forbid the friend of Christ to sin. When wealth is …

Evening, February 10

Is 44:22

… O ye black clouds of sin, how can it be fair weather with our souls while ye remain? Let our joyful eye dwell upon the notable act of …

Morning, November 29

Le 19:16-17

… Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.” Leviticus 19:16, 17 Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the …

Four Contrasts

Isaiah 43:1-4

… Beloved Friends, there are many lights in which we can see sin. And our perception of sin very much depends upon the light in which we look at …

Morning, August 14

Ps 92:4

… Cling to that cross which took thy sin away; serve thou him who served thee. “I beseech you therefore, by the mercies of God, that ye present your …

Evening, August 15

Eze 36:26

… The hard heart is selfish and coldly demands, “Why should I weep for sin? Why should I love the Lord?” But the heart of flesh says; “Lord, thou …

Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt

Luke 23:11

… But he could not give up his sin and so he put the servant of God in a dungeon. He was held fast, as many a man before …

Evening, June 11

Ps 76:3

… Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment …

Morning, September 17

Mk 9:19

… Our cries for our offspring should precede those cries which betoken their actual advent into a world of sin. In the days of their youth we shall see …

Evening, March 16

Ps 19:13

… Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, “We shall never sin,” but rather cry, “Lead us not into temptation.” There …

Evening, March 28

Eze 20:41

… Notwithstanding all your doubts, and fears, and sins, Jehovah’s gracious eye never looks upon you in anger; though he sees sin in you, in yourself, yet when …

Morning, July 13

Jon 4:9

… We do well when we are angry with sin, because of the wrong which it commits against our good and gracious God; or with ourselves because we remain …

Evening, April 7

Ps 51:14

… Observe, that David was evidently oppressed with the heinousness of his sin. It is easy to use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning. The fifty …

Morning, July 30

Mk 14:72

… It is not unlikely that it was so, for his sin was very great, and grace in him had afterwards a perfect work. This same experience is common …

Evening, January 17

2Sa 11:2

… The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence. David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord’s battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave …

The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword

2 Samuel 23:9

… This is no strange thing and there is no sin in it. Elea-zar's weariness was that of bone, muscle, sinew—the weariness of his arm—but …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… Sin in the church will be the death of revival, or else the revival will be the death of sin. Let no one among us besmear himself with …

Morning, May 30

Song 2:15

… A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with his people unless they drive out every known …

Evening, January 16

Da 9:26

… Neither original nor actual sin had defiled him, and therefore death had no claim upon him. No man could have taken his life from him justly, for he …

A Vexed Soul Comforted

Job 27:2

… I hope that it has become saddened through a sense of sin. At one time you did not think that there was any fault to be found with …

Soul-threshing

Isaiah 28:27

… Something is done by threshing when the soul ceases to be bound up with its sin and sin is no longer pleasurable or satisfactory. Still, as the work …

The World Turned Upside Down

Acts 17:6

… The believers in Jesus were slandered as if they were the common sewer, into which all the filth of sin was to be poured; whereas, they were like …

Prayer 5 — To The King Eternal

… Help us, Lord, to conquer sin out of love to Thee. Help some dear strugglers that have been mastered by sin sometimes, and they are struggling against it …

Place for the Word

John 8:37

… how say You, You shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin. Depend upon it …

Seeing Christ's Day

John 8:56

… Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin. The man who habitually lives in sin is not a free …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… He saw pains and griefs and sorrows as the necessary consequence of sin and, wisely guided, wisely taught, the simple-minded started back and listened to the admonitions …

A Silly Dove

Hosea 7:11

… You lived in sin once, but Christ died for your sin, so you must reckon that, in Him, you died to sin, seeing that He died in your …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… I have noticed that more men sin without temptation than with it and that the heaviest falls occur upon perfectly level road where there does not seem to …

The Saviour's Many Crowns

Revelation 19:12

… Furthermore, the next crown he wears is the crown by which he has overcome sin. Sin has been more than a match for creatures of every kind. Sin …

Prayer 10 — The Music of Praise

… May they never be content to live and die in sin, but of Thine infinite mercy, come to them and make them sorry for their sin. As for …

The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows

Psalm 45:7

… The text adds, “Thou hatest wickedness.” A man’s character is not complete without a perfect hatred of sin. “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… Inasmuch as we have before us the memorial of the atonement for sin, it reminds us of our death in sin in which we should still have remained …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… First, the Lord has shown you, perhaps, years ago, or possibly at this moment He is showing you for the first time—your sin. What a sight that …

"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"

Genesis 26:29

… Already I have approached this part of my subject by speaking of the speedy discovery of his sin, but in addition to this, there were other sorrows not …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… No sin is then sown within us. This sin of the old flesh remains but there is no sin in the newborn nature, it cannot sin because it …

On Raising Questions

… He cannot be holy too soon, or too early quit the ways of sin. If a man could really see what sin is, he would flee from it …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… We are witnesses against sin. Sin comes with a painted face like Jezebel, but we witness that she is a destroyer and must die. The pleasures of sin …