Sin

From The City of God by Saint Augustine
Sin is rebellion against God's law and nature, universal to all humanity since Adam, bringing death and separation from God—and requiring divine atonement for forgiveness.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
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Romans 6:23

The wages of sin is death.

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1 John 1:8-10

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.

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Romans 5:12

By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.

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James 1:14-15

Lust conceives and brings forth sin; sin brings forth death.

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Isaiah 59:2

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God.

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Genesis 3:1-19

The Fall—origin of sin in humanity.

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1 John 3:4

Sin is the transgression of the law.

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Romans 7:14-25

Paul's inner struggle: the good I would I do not.

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James 4:17

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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Psalm 51:1-12

David's penitential psalm after his sin with Bathsheba.

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Hebrews 12:1

Lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us.

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