Martin Luther Sin Quotations

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death ... the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation