55 Bible Verses about Guilt

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

The one who acquits the guilty and the one who condemns the innocent -- both of them are an abomination to the Lord.

when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,

However, you must confess that you have done wrong, and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,' says the Lord.

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see," says the Lord God.

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

I will purify them from all the sin that they committed against me. I will forgive all their sins which they committed in rebelling against me.

"'When a person sins in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened) and he does not make it known, then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said, "I will confess my rebellious acts to the Lord." And then you forgave my sins. (Selah)

O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.

You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

"'If the high priest sins so that the people are guilty, on account of the sin he has committed he must present a flawless young bull to the Lord for a sin offering.

They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it

Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest, "It was a mistake!" Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?"

Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.

when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

"For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the Lord who rules over all. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground -- their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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

Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

Lord, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended the builders!

Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."

When that time comes, no guilt will be found in Israel. No sin will be found in Judah. For I will forgive those of them I have allowed to survive. I, the Lord, affirm it!'"

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities."

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment --

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?