All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  A Certain World,'Hell'.

Thou shall not sin With statisticians nor commit A social science.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
'Under  Which Lyre'.

They represented tomeanabsolute idea of thefirst state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  Of the Indians of Surinam. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave.

   In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming round our feet; Red hair she had and golden skin, Her sulky lips were shaped for sin, Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'd, The strongest legs in Pontefract.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'The Licorice Fields at Pontefract'.

Be sure your sin will find you out.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Numbers 32:23.

Stand inawe, and sinnot: communewithyourownheart upon your bed, and be still.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 4:4.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:3^5.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:11.

Then said I,Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the L of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my 102 mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard thevoiceoftheLord,saying,Whomshall Isend, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:5^8.

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:31.

Then came Peter to him, and said,Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,Until seven times: but,Until seventy times seven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mattthew18:21^2.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John1:29.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,Hethat iswithout sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 8:7.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 5:20.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 6:1^2.

For thewages of sinisdeath; butthegiftof God iseternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 6:23.

Wherefore seeing we alsoare compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews12:1^2.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  John1:8^9.

If any mansin, wehaveanadvocate withthe Father,Jesus Christ the righteous.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  John 2:1.

We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Reception of the Child.