55 Bible Verses about Guilt

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them [are] both abominations of Yahweh.

When he becomes guilty {in any of} these, he shall confess what he has sinned {regarding} it,

Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' {declares} Yahweh."

For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one [point only] has become guilty of all [of it].

A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.

" 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him.

'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.

And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.

" 'When a person sins in that he hears [the] utterance of a curse and he [is] a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make [it] known, then he shall bear his guilt.

I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

O God, {you yourself know} my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.

{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.

{Have I concealed} my transgressions as [other] human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.

For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

" 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin {along with} him.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.

Consequently, [there is] now no condemnation for those [who are] in Christ Jesus.

if the anointed priest sins, {bringing guilt on the people}, then, concerning the sin that he has {committed}, he shall bring {a young bull} without defect for Yahweh as a sin offering.

And they will bear their guilt, like the guilt of the inquirer so the guilt of the prophet will be,

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet.

{and when} he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back {the things he had stolen} or {what he had extorted} or {something with which he had been entrusted} or the lost property that he had found,

For neither Israel nor Judah [is] a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Samaria will be guilty, because she has rebelled against her God; they will fall by [the] sword, their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man.

And you--fill up the measure of your fathers!

Therefore a curse devours [the] earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore [the] inhabitants of [the] earth burn, and {few men are left}.

{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict} [with respect to] any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the {evidence} of two witnesses or on the {evidence} of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.

Or if a person touches anything unclean, {whether} an unclean [wild] animal's dead body or an unclean domestic animal's dead body or an unclean swarmer's dead body, but {he is unaware of it}, he [is] unclean and he is guilty.

"When you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house {if anyone should fall from it}.

We know, Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have {provoked the builders to anger}.

Jesus replied to him, "You would not have any authority over me unless it was given to you from above. For this [reason] the one who handed me over to you has greater sin."

In those days and at that time," {declares} Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there [is] none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind.

But [do so] with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in [the things] in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors. Let them not rise and take possession of [the] earth or fill up [the] face of [the] world [with] cities."

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

The ones buying them kill them and go unpunished, and the ones selling them say, 'Blessed [be] Yahweh, for I have become rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, {why} do you not believe me?

And [when he] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:

For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?