If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!

He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.

Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.