Theme: Sin
If you think yourselves already converted, and that encourages you to give yourselves the greater liberty in sinning, this is a certain sign that you are not converted.
Wherefore abandon all these ways of flattering yourselves; no longer follow the devil’s bait; and let nothing encourage you to go on in sin; but immediately and henceforth seek God with all your heart, and soul, and strength.
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Oh, but we have need to be redeemed from ourselves, rather than from the devil and the world!
If men are rich, they learn to be covetous; thirsting insatiably after the world, and by unjust means scraping it together.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
There is something in every man’s life which he needs saving from, something which would spoil his life and run off with it.
We labor to cover our nakedness with the fig-leaves of our own righteousness.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
This also sounds hard. I do not wonder. Our sins are often as dear to us as our children: we love them, hug them, cleave to them, and delight in them.
The worst chains are those which are neither felt nor seen by the prisoner.
Sin disunites the most united hearts: It is, the bane of holy fellowship.
He must fight the flesh. Even after conversion he carries within him a nature prone to evil, and a heart weak and unstable as water. That heart will never be free from imperfection in this world, and it is a miserable delusion to expect it.
God’s testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner.
He who lives but for God is never sad, save at having offended God.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public, than to pray against it in private.
Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
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