54 Bible Verses about Guilt

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1 John 3:20

Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Leviticus 5:5

And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that by which he has sinned.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Proverbs 28:17

A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

Exodus 22:2

If the thief is found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Job 33:9

I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

Jeremiah 33:8

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. And I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.

Leviticus 5:1

And if a soul sins, in that he hears the voice of an oath, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not testify, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Hosea 5:15

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin, but now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remains.

Job 31:33

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

Psalm 38:4

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shall not hate thy brother in thy heart. Thou shall surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Ezra 10:10

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women to increase the guilt of Israel.

Leviticus 4:3

if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to LORD for a sin-offering.

Ezekiel 14:10

And they shall bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [him],

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the [heavenly] agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Psalm 5:10

Hold them guilty, O God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions. For they have rebelled against thee.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for rewards, and take away the justice of the righteous man from him!

Nahum 1:3

LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Leviticus 6:4

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of LORD of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Luke 23:4

And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find nothing guilty in this man.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guil

Deuteronomy 22:8

When thou build a new house, then thou shall make a guard rail for thy roof, that thou not bring blood upon thy house, if any man falls from there.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.

Nehemiah 4:5

and do not cover their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days, and in that time, says LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. For I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Psalm 7:3

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,

Zechariah 11:5

whose possessors kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be LORD, for I am rich, and their own shepherds pity them not.

Hebrews 10:2

Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of those who worship, once having been cleansed, to have no further conscience of sins?

From Thematic Bible


Guilt » Joseph's brethren

Genesis 42:21

And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

Exodus 9:27

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Guilt » Israel in the wilderness

Numbers 21:7

And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against LORD, and against thee. Pray to LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Guilt » The psalmist

Psalm 40:12

for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.

Guilt » The scribes and pharisees

John 8:9

And they, having heard and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, having begun from the elder until the last. And Jesus was left behind alone, and the woman being in the midst.

Guilt » The jews of ezra's time

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Topics on Guilt

Blood, as symbol of guilt

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.

Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:17

And if a soul sins, and does any of the things which LORD has commanded not to be done, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Guilt, Human Aspects Of

Psalm 51:3-5

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

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