Sin

The Spies

Numbers 13:32

… You watch him! He, if he could find a drunkard in the street, would upbraid him, and talk to him so proudly against the sin of intoxication, but …

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… He said, "I suppose it is because the sin is so extremely rare." Blind soul! I told him that, on the other hand, I feared the sin was …

The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward

Luke 16:2

… It was a good rule of the old Puritans, that of making frank and full confession of sin every night; not to leave a week’s sin to …

Nothing But Leaves

Mark 11:13

… If men’s transient sorrows for sin were real repentance on account of it, there is not a man living who would not, sometime or other, have been …

The Foundation and Its Seal—a Sermon for the Times

2Timothy 2:19

… O you people of God, if you are, indeed, the Lord's, let no sin dwell with you! Do not say, "It is a constitutional sin." You are …

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… When the commandment came, it irritated our corrupt nature and sin revived and we died. Even when we had some strivings after better things, yet the power that …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… I have to observe upon it, first, that Christ's death produced a posterity. "When you shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… All that sin of ours which occasioned His death is condoned. If He has risen from the dead, He has forgiven us the sin of putting Him to …

Precious Deaths

Psalm 116:15

… It lies mainly in the fact that death is no more the indiction of a penalty for sin upon the believer. One great cardinal truth of the gospel …

The Joy of Holy Households

Psalm 118:15

… Beside this, we rejoice in forgiven sin. This is the first blessing of which David sings in the 103rd Psalm and it is the preparation for all the …

The First, Last—And the Last, First

Matthew 19:30

… Therefore, sin shall not have dominion over him, but Grace shall have dominion over him— and he shall seek to serve the Lord and please Him all the …

The Glory in the Rear

Exodus 14:19-20

… When the consolations of God are small with you, you may generally conclude that there is some secret sin with you: and then it is your duty to …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… All that will breed worms and stink—all human confidence, glory and pride must rot! But if you remain a poor sinner and nothing at all, daily depending …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… Note that Peter here shows how readily he fell, not precisely into the same sin, but into the same kind of sin. His tendency was still to err …

Special Protracted Prayer

Luke 6:12

… As for instance in that most important department, namely, personal confession of sin, He could take no portion. There were no slips in His outward life. There were …

Very Singular

2 Samuel 17:23

… What is your motive? Perhaps some of you are indulging a pleasurable sin which you cannot give up. I entreat you, cast it from you! Though it is …

'Who Is on the Lord's Side?'

Exodus 32:26

… I came not to send peace, but a sword." His faithful servants are to follow His example—to quarrel with error, to fight against sin—to be aggressive …

All and All in All

Colossians 3:11

… If you know that He is the Son of God and the one great Propitiation for sin, and if you accept Him as such, you have that which …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… He enlightens us as to our lost condition, convicting us of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. And the first result upon our heart is astonishment and lamentation …

Angelic Interest in the Gospel

1 Peter 1:12

… The Lord Jesus has told us that "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents." That is to say, there …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… All sin will one day be expelled the universe, even as criminals condemned to die are led out of the city; then shall secret traitors find themselves ejected …

Refined, But Not With Silver

Isaiah 48:10

… It is prepared with extreme care and has great separating power, but the purging away of sin needs greater care and more cleansing energy than a silver refinery …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… Heat hatches the cockatrice eggs and the heat of prosperity often brings out the young serpents of sin. See to it, lest, like David, you refuse to go …

Public Meeting Of The Various Denominations

… believe in the utter degeneracy of the entire human race in consequences of sin. He would not reiterate the statements of the Word of God to the effect …

Once Dead, Now Alive

Ephesians 2:1

… I knew not, in those days, the sweetness of the Gospel of Christ, nor even the bitterness of sin. I had no taste, for I was dead—and …

The Death of the Christian

Job 5:26

… We know that had Adam never sinned he would not have died, for death is the punishment of sin, and we know that Enoch and Elijah were translated …

Wanted, A Guest Chamber!

Mark 14:14

… In the power of the Spirit sin will have to be cast out, for Christ will not eat the Passover with sin reigning in the chamber. All the …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… Look back, and sin is blotted out. Look around, and all things work together for good to them that love God. Look beyond, and glory shineth through the …

"My Beloved Is Mine"

Solomon 2:16

… Man for our sake and, as the God-Man, made atonement for our sin and, having died, has risen from the dead and gone into His Father's …

A King Sent in Love

2 Chronicles 2:11

… Oppressors have been great breakers, but their time of retribution shall come and they shall be broken themselves, Sin, Satan and all our enemies must be crushed by …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… If the Spirit of God shall lead you in penitence to confess your sin and in humble, childlike faith to lay hold on Christ, you shall become, in …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… Respectable carelessness refuses us and disreputable sin rejects us after we are once united to Christ! Even the world could not endure us when once we have lost …

Thought-Reading Extraordinary

Psalm 10:17

… He sighed in his soul this prayer—"God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" And he went down to his house justified rather than the other! I do …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… But, whoever will confess himself a sinner, has the warrant this morning to come to Jesus Christ. Sinnership is the only title to salvation. If you acknowledge yourselves …

A Fatal Deficiency

Romans 8:9

… He has come where God is real to him, where Christ is real to him, where truth is real, where sin is hateful, where holiness is lovely. Judge …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… That heavenly Book which lies neglected on many a shelf is the only guide for those who would avoid the enticing and entangling mazes of sin; and it …

First Literary Friends

… The rage of Satan, on the rescue of a sinner from his grasp, forms a picture of terrific grandeur. In the sermon on 'The Bible,' the respective characteristics …

The Gospel of Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Romans 8:32

… The Father and the Son were equally alone when His soul was made a Sacrifice for sin. Did you observe, also, that Isaac carried the wood!—a true …

"This Year Also"

Luke 13:6

… If so, we may well bewail that wasted vigor, that life misspent, that sin exceedingly multiplied. He who saw us misuse those golden months of youth, nevertheless affords …

Confirming the Witness of Christ

1 Corinthians 1:6

… There is a plague-spot which sin has left upon them all. There was something to show that man is nothing but an earthen vessel, after all." But …