Sadly, we realize that most people take sin far too casually.  Some in the world don’t even believe in the reality of sin while others just pass it off as something that everyone does, thus it is not a “big deal” and we shouldn’t allow it to bother us! Yet those who believe God and His inspired Word know that sin is what will condemn, destroy, and lead most people to eternal ruin! (See 1 John 1-5) Thus, we must carefully read God’s Word and study the meaning and results of sin. Further, we must realize that Jesus is the answer to the disaster of sin for He gives us forgiveness! With this in our mind, let’s study a list of sins mentioned in the New Testament!

[We realize that in the past we offered an older list of sins found in the whole Bible. We called it an “Official List of Sins.” However, this former list was very dated with many of the sins taken from inferior translations and the list needed much work to bring it up-to-date. We have now entirely updated the list, using the terms from modern and more accurate translations, particularly the New American Standard Bible. We offer to you the newer list below. We hope that this list will be something that you will find of interest and also will find useful.

Most  of the sins in the following list will be offered with many different Scriptural passages. This should make this list much more usable than it otherwise would be. Thus, we hope that you will find this listing to be helpful to you. The list will be arranged alphabetically with the verses following. A listing such as this is bound to have certain verses that need to be worked on, thus please let me know what needs to be changed or corrected.]

List Of Sins In The Bible New Testament

The New Testament is filled with many sins and faults that we commit everyday without even knowing it. We have compiled a list of the most common ones and what they mean. You will read the word “ye” alot in this post, it means you.

Pride

Pride, or the sin of thinking too highly of yourself, is one that we all commit. It’s a sin that brought Lucifer down from heaven and it is also the very sin that Satan used to tempt Eve. This should make you think about your own pride, as most likely it doesn’t sit well with God.

Also worth noting is the fact that pride is not only limited to humans but also angels as well (as in Lucifer). So keep this in mind when evaluating your own behavior and try not to look down on others just because they don’t have what you have or do what you do.

The Love Of Money

One of the most common New Testament sins is the love of money. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy that “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Timothy 6:10). Money itself isn’t evil, but it can lead us down paths that are harmful to us spiritually. As Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

The Bible tells us not only how we should live our lives but also what should matter most to us—and it’s not accumulating wealth or fame at any cost! We should focus more on being faithful servants who live life as Christ lived it—with joyfulness rather than worry about material things.

Lying

Lying is a sin. It’s not good, and it’s not pleasing to God. Lies can also be bad for your relationship with God, others, and your reputation.

If you tell a lie once in awhile, that may not seem like a big deal at first—but if you keep doing it over time, it can become much more serious. Lying takes away from the truth and damages relationships between people who trust each other.

Stealing

Stealing is a sin and a crime.

If you steal something, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter if the thing you’re taking belongs to someone else or not: stealing is still wrong.

Jesus said that if we have more than one coat, we should share with those who don’t have one (Matthew 5:40). He also said that if we have two shirts, then why do we need even one? “Give to him who has no covering,” Jesus said (Luke 3:11). That means that we should share our things with others who need them more than us!

Murder

The first sin in the New Testament is murder. This is defined as the act of intentionally killing another human being. Murder is a sin and it’s one of the most serious crimes you can commit, but it’s also a mortal sin which means that your soul will be sent to hell if you don’t repent and confess your sins before God. Often times people think that murder is not very serious because they’re only killing one person, but this isn’t true at all!

Murder is a heinous crime because it goes against everything that God stands for–love and mercy. It also goes against our own nature because no one wants to kill someone else; we were made with love in mind from the very beginning so why would we want to hurt anyone? And besides all those things there’s nothing worse than taking another life away from their families just because they might have said something about you online or something like that–it’s just wrong on so many levels!

Adultery

• Adultery is when you are unfaithful to your spouse.
• It is a sin against God and your spouse, because it violates the marriage covenant.
• It is also a sin against your children, since they cannot be raised by both biological parents if the parents are not married in the first place (though this would not apply to same-sex couples).

Fornication

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Homosexuality/Gay Marriage

Homosexuality is a sin. Gay marriage is a sin.

Homosexuality is not a choice, but the Bible says it’s wrong nonetheless. It’s like most sins we commit—the Bible says it’s wrong, so therefore we know that it is just plain wrong to do those things (1 John 3). There may be some who claim that they were “born that way,” but if you’re born with tendencies towards certain behaviors (such as murder), then there are plenty of other things you’d want to do instead of murdering people! You could become an accountant or something; anything would be better than killing someone else! So if you feel yourself tempted by homosexuality, don’t try to justify your actions with claims about how “God made me this way.” Instead, realize that God loves everyone equally despite their differences (1 Corinthians 13:4-6) and will forgive all sins upon repentance (Acts 3:19; 1 John 1).

Using God’s Name In Vain

You should not use God’s name in vain. That means you don’t swear or curse, and you don’t use it for false purposes.

The Bible says that God’s name is holy, and that he doesn’t want us to use his name for false purposes or in vain. For example, if your friend tells you a secret but asks you not to tell anyone else, then it would be wrong to tell someone else because doing so would be breaking your promise. So when we say things like “Oh my God!”, or when we pray things like “God help me!”, we’re not being disrespectful toward him; rather we’re just using his name as an expression of how strongly we feel about something (like swearing).

Religious Hypocricy

Hypocrisy is a form of dishonesty, or duplicity. Hypocrites are often perceived as being insincere, deluded, deceptive or even manipulative. A hypocrite is someone who claims to have beliefs, feelings or virtues that they do not actually possess.

In the New Testament:

• Jesus spoke about hypocrisy in Matthew 23:27-28 when he said “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs filled with dead people’s bones—beautiful on the outside but filled with decay and corruption inside”.* In Romans 2:17-23 Paul wrote “But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law (the Torah), and boast in God…then know this: God will not show favoritism but will treat all alike…. For if a person with gold rings on his fingers has respect for one who wears cheap clothing…how much more should one show honor for whom that person thinks worthy of honor?”

Resisting The Gospel Of Jesus Christ And The Word Of God/Preaching Of The Truth (2 Timothy 3:12)

You’ve probably heard about the Ten Commandments. If you haven’t, that’s fine! We’re not here to judge—we just want to tell you that they’re a good rule of thumb for living well. But did you know there are actually more than ten? There are many more, in fact. In fact, there are hundreds and hundreds of sins listed in the Bible: some small, some big; some common and others rare; actions we all take part in but don’t think twice about doing so. It doesn’t matter if it’s something someone else has done or something we’ve done ourselves—there’s no reason why any one person should be immune from accountability before their creator or atoning for wrongdoings against others through forgiveness according to God’s will alone (Hebrews 10:17-18).

In order for us all truly accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior–the One who died on the cross for our sins so we could live eternally with Him–and His Word as our guide (John 14), we must accept The Truth which is found only within His Word.”

List Of Sins We Commit Everyday

Classically, Christianity has listed seven sins as “deadly” sins, meaning that most everything else we do that is not virtuous somehow takes its root in one these congenital propensities.

These are the infamous seven: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. In spiritual literature the first three – pride, greed and lust – get most of the ink and attention.

Pride is presented as the root of all sin, Lucifer’s primordial defiance of God as forever echoed in our own lives: I will not serve!

Greed is seen as the basis for our selfishness and our blindness toward others, and lust has often been given the ultimate notoriety, as if the Sixth Commandment were the only commandment.

Not to deny the importance of these, but I suspect that the sin that most commonly afflicts us and is not much mentioned in spiritual literature is wrath, that is, anger and hatred.

I venture to say that most of us operate, however unconsciously, out of anger. This shows itself in our constant criticism of others, in our cynicism, in our jealousy of others, in our bitterness and in our inability to praise others.

And unlike most of our other sins, anger is easy to camouflage and rationalize as virtue.

At one level, anger often rationalizes itself as justified indignation over the foibles, stupidity, egotism, greed and faults of others: “How can I not be angry given what I see every day!”

Here anger shows itself in our constant irritation and in our quickness to correct, criticize and make a cynical remark.

Conversely, we’re very slow to praise and affirm. Perfection then becomes the enemy of the good and since nothing and no one is perfect, we’re always in critical mode and we see this as a virtue rather than for what it in fact is, namely, an inchoate anger and unhappiness inside of ourselves.

But our unhappy cynicism isn’t the biggest problem here. More seriously, anger too often parades itself as godly virtue, as righteousness, as prophecy, as a healthy, divinely inspired militancy for truth, for cause, for virtue, for God.

And so, we define ourselves as “holy warriors” and “vigilant defenders of truth,” taking justification in the popular (though false) conception that prophets are angry people, on passionate fire for God.

However, there’s a near infinite distance between true prophetic anger and the anger that today commonly parades itself as prophecy.

Daniel Berrigan, in his criteria for prophecy, submits (and rightly) that a prophet is someone who takes a vow of love, not of alienation. Prophecy is characterized by love aching for reconnection, not anger pushing for separation.

And love isn’t generally what characterizes most so-called prophetic anger in our world today, especially as it pertains to God, religion and defense of truth.

You see this in its worst form in Islamic extremism where, in the name of God, every kind of hatred, violence and random murder puts on God’s cloak.

Blaise Pascal captures this well in his “Pensees” where he writes, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

He’s wrong on one thing; mostly we aren’t doing it cheerfully but angrily. One only has to read the letters to the editor in our newspapers, listen to most talk-radio stations or listen to any debate on politics, religion or morality to see raw hatred and anger justifying themselves on moral and divine grounds.

There is such a thing as healthy prophetic anger, a fiery response when the poor of God, the word of God or the truth of God are being slandered, abused or neglected. There are important causes and boundaries to be defended.

But prophetic anger is an anger that emanates out of love and empathy and always, regardless of the hatred it meets, still exhibits love and empathy, like a loving mother in the face of a belligerent child.

Jesus on occasion exhibits this kind of anger, but his anger is antithetical to most of what masquerades as prophetic anger today, where love and empathy are so noticeably absent.

Someone once said that we spend the first half of life struggling with the Sixth Commandment, and then spend the second half of life struggling with the Fifth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill!”

We see this illustrated in the famous parable of the prodigal son, his older brother and his prodigal father. The younger son is effectively out of his father’s house through wrestling with the seductive energies of youth.

The older brother is just as effectively outside his father’s house, not through sin, but through wrestling with anger.

As a young boy, I was catechized to confess “bad thoughts” as sinful, but bad thoughts then were defined as sexual thoughts.

As we age, I suggest, we might continue to confess “bad thoughts,” but now those “bad thoughts” have to do with anger.

A cynic, it’s said, is someone who has given up but not shut up. He’s also someone who has confused wrath – one of the seven deadly sins – with virtue.

What Are The Unforgivable Sins In The Bible

The unpardonable/unforgivable sin or “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is mentioned in Mark 3:22–30 and Matthew 12:22–32. Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter” (Mark 3:28), but then He gives one exception: “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin” (verse 29).

According to Jesus, the unpardonable or unforgivable sin is unique. It is the one iniquity that will never be forgiven (“never” is the meaning of “either in this age or in the age to come” in Matthew 12:32). The unforgivable sin is blasphemy (“defiant irreverence”) of the Holy Spirit in the context of the Spirit’s work in the world through Christ. In other words, the particular case of blasphemy seen in Matthew 12 and Mark 3 is unique. The guilty party, a group of Pharisees, had witnessed irrefutable evidence that Jesus was working miracles in the power of the Holy Spirit, yet they claimed that He was possessed by the prince of demons, Beelzebul (Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:30).

The Jewish leaders of Jesus’ day committed the unpardonable sin by accusing Jesus Christ (in person, on earth) of being demon-possessed. They had no excuse for such an action. They were not speaking out of ignorance or misunderstanding. The Pharisees knew that Jesus was the Messiah sent by God to save Israel. They knew the prophecies were being fulfilled. They saw Jesus’ wonderful works, and they heard His clear presentation of truth. Yet they deliberately chose to deny the truth and slander the Holy Spirit. Standing before the Light of the World, bathed in His glory, they defiantly closed their eyes and became willfully blind. Jesus pronounced that sin to be unforgivable.

The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, specific as it was to the Pharisees’ situation, cannot be duplicated today. Jesus Christ is not on earth, and no one can personally see Jesus perform a miracle and then attribute that power to Satan instead of the Spirit. The only unpardonable sin today is that of continued unbelief. There is no pardon for a person who dies in his rejection of Christ. The Holy Spirit is at work in the world, convicting the unsaved of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). If a person resists that conviction and remains unrepentant, then he is choosing hell over heaven. “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6), and the object of faith is Jesus (Acts 16:31). There is no forgiveness for someone who dies without faith in Christ.

God has provided for our salvation in His Son (John 3:16). Forgiveness is found exclusively in Jesus (John 14:6). To reject the only Savior is to be left with no means of salvation; to reject the only pardon is, obviously, unpardonable.

Many people fear they have committed some sin that God cannot or will not forgive, and they feel there is no hope for them, no matter what they do. Satan would like nothing more than to keep people laboring under that misconception. God gives encouragement to the sinner who is convicted of his sin: “Come near to God and he will come near to you” (James 4:8). “Where sin increased, grace increased all the more” (Romans 5:20). And the testimony of Paul is proof positive that God can and will save anyone who comes to Him in faith (1 Timothy 1:12–17). If you are suffering under a load of guilt today, rest assured that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. God is waiting with open arms. Jesus’ promise is that “he is able to save completely those who come to God through him” (Hebrews 7:25). Our Lord will never fail. “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation” (Isaiah 12:2).