The best Bible verses for sin for prayer include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for sin for prayer, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature."Galatians 5:16
"So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature."Galatians 5:16
"For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want."Galatians 5:17
"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;"Galatians 5:19
"Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires."Galatians 5:24
"He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time."Hebrews 11:25
"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins."Isaiah 40:2
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?"Isaiah 40:21
"Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."James 1:15
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin."John 15:22
"If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father."John 15:24
"If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell."Matthew 5:29
"And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell."Matthew 5:30
"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."Matthew 6:14
A verse used for sin for prayer works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for sin for prayer are Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:17, Galatians 5:19. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to sin for prayer across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for sin for prayer, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.