Young men, if you did but know what sin is, and what sin has done, you would not think it strange that I exhort you as I do. You do not see it in its true colours. Your eyes are naturally blind to its guilt and danger, and hence you cannot understand what makes me so anxious about you. Oh, let not the devil succeed in persuading you that sin is a small matter.
Think for a moment what the Bible says about sin--how it dwells naturally in the heart of every man and woman alive (Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23)--how it defiles our thoughts, words, and actions, and that continually (Genesis 6:5; Matthew 15:19)--how it renders us all guilty and abominable in the sight of a holy God (Isaiah 64:6; Habakkuk 1:13)--how it leaves us utterly without hope of salvation, if we look to ourselves (Psalm 143:2; Romans 3:20)--how its fruit in this world is shame, and its wages in the world to come, death (Romans 6:21, 23).
- J.C. Ryle in Thoughts for Young Men
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