55 Bible Verses about Guilt

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1 John 3:20

For if our heart condemn us, for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Leviticus 5:5

And it was when he shall be guilty for one from these, and he shall confess that he sinned upon it

Jeremiah 3:13

Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from bloods, O God the God of my salvation; my tongue shall rejoice in thy justice.

Proverbs 28:17

He terrifying violence upon the blood of a soul shall flee even to the pit; none shall hold fast upon him.

Exodus 22:2

If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him.

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression; I am fair, and no iniquity to me.

Jeremiah 33:8

And I cleansed them from all their iniquity which they sinned to me, and which they transgressed against me.

Hosea 5:15

I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.

John 9:41

We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

Job 31:33

If I covered my transgression, as man, to hide mine iniquity in my bosom:

Psalm 38:4

No soundness in my flesh from thy wrath; no peace in my bones from the face of my sins.

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.

Ezra 10:10

And Ezra the priest will rise up and say to them, Ye transgressed, and ye will dwell with strange wives to add upon the guilt of Israel.

Leviticus 4:3

If the priest being anointed shall sin according to the guilt of the people; and he brought for his sin which he sinned, a bullock, the son of a cow, blameless to Jehovah for the sin.

Ezekiel 14:10

And they bare their iniquity; as the iniquity of him seeking so shall be the iniquity of the prophet;

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Thou shalt not give thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt not say to the face of the messenger that it is an error: wherefore shall God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Psalm 5:10

Punish them, O God: they shall fall by their counsels; in the multitude of their transgressions thrust them down, for they rebelled against thee.

Isaiah 5:23

Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.

Leviticus 6:4

And it was when he shall sin and being guilty, and he turned back the robbery which he robbed, or the oppression which he oppressed, or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost thing which he found,

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel not in widowhood, and Judah from his God, from Jehovah of armies; if their land was filled with guilt because of the Holy One of Israel.

Luke 23:4

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

Matthew 23:32

And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers.

Isaiah 24:6

For this, the curse consumed the earth, and they dwelling in it, will transgress: for this, they dwelling upon the earth were burned, and those remaining, men of fewness.

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established.

Leviticus 5:2

Or when a soul shall touch upon any unclean thing, if upon a carcase of an unclean beast, or upon the carcase of unclean cattle, or upon the carcase of an unclean creeping thing, and it was hidden from him: and he is unclean and guilty.

Deuteronomy 22:8

When thou shalt build a new house thou shalt make a ledge to thy roof, and thou shalt not put bloods upon thy house, if he shall fall from it.

Jeremiah 14:20

We knew, O Jehovah, our evil, the iniquity of our fathers: for we sinned to thee.

Nehemiah 4:5

And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, he will seek the iniquity of Israel, and not any; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I shall forgive to whom I shall leave.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; they shall not rise and possess the land, and fill the face of the habitable globe with cities.

Romans 3:19

And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.

Psalm 7:3

O Jehovah my God, if I did this, if there is iniquity in my hand;

Zechariah 11:5

Which they possessing them will slaughter them, and they will not be punished: and they selling them will say, Blessed be Jehovah; and I shall be rich: and their shepherds had not pity upon them.

Hebrews 10:2

For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.

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Guilt » Joseph's brethren

Genesis 42:21

And they will say, a man to his brother, Truly we guilty concerning our brother, when we saw the straits of his soul in his entreating us, and we heard him not; for this, these straits are come to us.

Exodus 9:27

And Pharaoh will send and call for Moses and for Aaron, and will say to them, I sinned this time: Jehovah is just, and I and my people unjust

Guilt » Israel in the wilderness

Numbers 21:7

And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.

Guilt » The psalmist

Psalm 40:12

For evils even not being numbered encompassed about me: mine inquities overtook me, and I was not able to see; they were numerous above the hairs of my head, and my heart forsook me.

Guilt » The scribes and pharisees

John 8:9

And they having heard, and being convicted by consciousness, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Guilt » The jews of ezra's time

Ezra 9:6

And saying, My God, I was ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face, O my God, to thee: for our iniquities were multiplied over the head, and our guilt was magnified even to the heavens.

Topics on Guilt

Blood, as symbol of guilt

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.

Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:17

And if a soul shall sin and do one from all the commands of Jehovah which shall not be done; and he knew not, and he was guilty, and bore his sin.

Guilt, Human Aspects Of

Psalm 51:3-5

For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me.

Incurring Guilt

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.

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