'Transgression' in the Bible

"Before he died, your father left some instructions. He told us, "Tell Joseph, "Please forgive your brothers' offenses. I beg you, forgive their sins, because they wronged you."' So please forgive the transgression of the servants of your father's God."

Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don't rebel against him, because he won't forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him.

He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation."

"The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won't acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.'

Looke, my father, look! The corner of your robe is in my hand. Indeed, by my cutting off the corner of your robe and not killing you, you may know and understand that I have no evil intent or transgression I haven't wronged you, even though you are hunting me to take my life.

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

"How many of my iniquities and sins have you counted? Show me my transgression and sin.

"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

Have I lied concerning the justice that I deserve? My wound is incurable, though transgression cannot be attributed to me.'

If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?

How blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

He flatters himself too much to discover his transgression and hate it.

For I acknowledge my transgression; my sin remains continuously before me.

Look, they lie in ambush for my life; these violent men gather together against me, but not because of any transgression or sin of mine, LORD.

Transgression is at work where people talk too much, but anyone who holds his tongue is prudent.

The person who loves transgression loves strife; the person who builds a high gate invites destruction.

An evil man is trapped by transgression, but the righteous person sings and rejoices.

As the wicked grow powerful, transgression increases, but the righteous will observe their downfall.

The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies so heavy upon it, that it falls, never to rise again.

"I, I am the one who blots out your transgression for my own sake, and I'll remember your sins no more.

"From detention and judgment he was taken away and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people.

Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies,

"And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," says the LORD.

Because he reconsidered his transgression and turned away from everything that he had been doing, he'll certainly live and not die.

It was because of their defilement and transgression that I treated them this way by hiding my presence from them.'"

Because of the transgression, the Heavenly Army will be given over, along with the regular burnt offering, and in that rebellion truth will be cast to the ground, while he continues to prosper and to act."

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

They offer me meat from the sacrifices of my offerings, and they eat from it, but the LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their transgression and pay them back for their sins; to Egypt they will return.

All this comes about due to the transgression of Jacob, and due to the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's sin? It's Samaria, isn't it? And what's Judah's high place? It's Jerusalem, isn't it?

"As for me, I am truly filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, filled with judgment and power to announce to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.