Luke 18:13
The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'
Luke 23:48
And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
Ezra 9:6
I prayed, "O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
Jeremiah 31:18-19
I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, 'We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.
Ezekiel 16:63
Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign Lord.'"
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we do, brothers?"
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Timothy 1:15
This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" -- and I am the worst of them!
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
2 Chronicles 33:19
The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.
Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
Psalm 25:7
Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O Lord!
Psalm 25:11
For the sake of your reputation, O Lord, forgive my sin, because it is great.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
Psalm 41:4
As for me, I said: "O Lord, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!
Psalm 51:1-3
For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
Psalm 86:15-16
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
Psalm 119:41
(Vav) May I experience your loyal love, O Lord, and your deliverance, as you promised.
Psalm 130:3-4
If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
Psalm 130:7
O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.
Isaiah 1:18
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.
Isaiah 6:5
I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."
Isaiah 64:5-6
You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
Daniel 9:5
we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.
Daniel 9:7-11
"You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day -- the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
Daniel 9:18-19
Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Luke 5:8
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!"
Luke 7:6-7
So Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.
Luke 15:18-21
I will get up and go to my father and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Luke 17:12
As he was entering a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance,
Luke 23:40-43
But the other rebuked him, saying, "Don't you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
Romans 5:20-21
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
2 Corinthians 7:11
For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
Hebrews 4:16
Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.
Hebrews 8:12
"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."
1 John 1:8-10
If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.