Luke 18:13
But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 23:48
The crowds gathered at this sight. When they saw the things that were done they left beating their breasts.
Ezra 9:6
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
Jeremiah 31:18-19
I hear the people of Israel say in grief, 'Jehovah, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back for we are ready to return to you, Jehovah our God.
Ezekiel 16:63
I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.' The Lord Jehovah has spoken.
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: Men and brothers, what shall we do?
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Timothy 1:15
Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not humble himself in front of Jehovah as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.
Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 25:7
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my rebellious ways. O Jehovah, remember me in keeping with your loving kindness and your goodness.
Psalm 25:11
O Jehovah, for the sake of your name pardon my guilt, because it is great.
Psalm 40:12
Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).
Psalm 41:4
I said: O Jehovah, be gracious to me! Heal me for I have sinned against you.
Psalm 51:1-3
([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.
Psalm 86:15-16
But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.
Psalm 119:41
May your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, your salvation according to your promise.
Psalm 130:3-4
If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?
Psalm 130:7
O Israel hope in Jehovah! For with Jehovah there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.
Isaiah 6:5
Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.
Isaiah 64:5-6
You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You were angry because we sinned. We continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved?
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
Daniel 9:7-11
O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
Daniel 9:18-19
O my God, incline your ear, and hear! Open your eyes, and behold our desolations and the city that is called by your name. We do not present our supplications before you because of our righteous merits, but according to your many mercies.
Matthew 9:13
You should learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus' knees. He said: Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Luke 7:6-7
Jesus went with them. As he approached the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying, Lord do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.
Luke 15:18-21
I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you.
Luke 17:12
Entering a village he met ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease.
Luke 23:40-43
The other rebuked him saying: Do you not respect God, seeing you are also condemned?
Romans 5:20-21
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.
2 Corinthians 7:11
This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Hebrews 8:12
I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more.'
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.