By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

Murder and adultery are great crimes.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

Strategy 7—Against Your Purity He tries to tempt you toward certain sins, convincing you that you can tolerate them without risking consequence, knowing they'll only wedge distance between you and God (Isa. 59:1—2).

I stopped being watchful and diligent. I rushed after my own lusts. I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God. I have grieved the Spirit, and He is gone. I tempted the Devil, and he has come to me. I have provoked God to anger, and He has left me. I have so hardened my heart that I cannot repent.