Sin On More (Oops, I Did it Again)

In 1716, publishers produced a Bible that they did not examine closely enough. Instead of John 5:14 reading "Sin no more," it read "Sin on more." The reversal of two letters makes a big difference. 

Unfortunately, not a few live as if they own a copy of the "sin on more" Bible. Although God is loving and gracious, we should not assume that we can do whatever we want and then expect a measly "I'm sorry" to get us off the hook.

When Jesus healed a disabled man in John 5, Jesus ordered him not to continue his old, sinful manner of living: Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.” (5:14). 

Paul also warned against taking advantage of God's grace:

 ¹ What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? ² May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? ⁴buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have become united with Therefore we have been Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; ⁷ for he who has died is freed from sin. (Romans 6:1-7)

Simply put, the attitude, "oops, I did it again, but no biggie because God is love" doesn't cut it. Let's follow the "sin no more" method instead of the "sin on more" approach!