47 Bible Verses about Blame

And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate. And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

And why have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink.

And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, Thus says the whole congregation of LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following LORD, in that ye have built for you an altar, to rebel this day against LORD? Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of LORD,read more.
that ye must turn away this day from following LORD? And it will be, seeing ye rebel today against LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me to lay in wait as at this day? Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house? Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me. Let not the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father, for thy servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.

Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day I show kindness to the house of Saul thy father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee i

And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of LORD, and thou have followed the Baalim.

There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]. Neither is it in our

But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled. Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope? Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear.

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this ma

And as he passed on, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?

Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou were here, my brother would not have died.

Now in those days, the disciples being multiplied, there developed a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily assistance.

Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts. I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of thy hand, for thou have filled me with indignation. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies. Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves. Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.read more.
Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price. Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger. All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way, that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever. Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground. Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.

O God thou have cast us off. Thou have broken us down. Thou have been angry. O restore us again. Thou have made the land to tremble. Thou have torn it. Heal the breaking of it, for it shakes. Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation, which thou have gotten of old, which thou have redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, [and] mount Zion, at which thou have dwelt. Lift up thy feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.read more.
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs. They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers. They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground. They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land. We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long. How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever? Why do thou draw back thy hand, even thy right hand? Remove [it] from the midst of thy bosom. Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. Thou break the heads of leviathan in pieces. Thou gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers. The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun. Thou have set all the borders of the earth. Thou have made summer and winter. Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name. O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast. Forget not the life of thy poor forever. Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day. Forget not the voice of thine adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against thee ascends continually.

O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth. They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.read more.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us. How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

For, finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says Lord, and I will perfect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done thee no harm.

Let them be put to shame [and] consumed who are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.

He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, and for the belt with which he is girded continually. This is the reward of my adversaries from LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

But the man who is weak in the faith, do not receive for arguments of opinions. One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables. The man who eats should not disdain the man who does not eat, and the man who does not eat should not criticize the man who eats, for God has received him.read more.
Who are thou who criticizes the servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

Therefore receive ye each other, just as Christ also received you for the glory of God.

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.read more.
Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom. Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for am I in the place of God? And as for you, ye meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not. I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil. And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

And the sons of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, and with him ten rulers, one ruler of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel. And they were each man of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,read more.
Thus says the whole congregation of LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following LORD, in that ye have built for you an altar, to rebel this day against LORD? Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of LORD, that ye must turn away this day from following LORD? And it will be, seeing ye rebel today against LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass ye over to the land of the possession of LORD, in which LORD's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us, but do not rebel against LORD, nor rebel against us, in b Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in what was set apart, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity. Then the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel, The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day), that we have built us an altar to turn away from following LORD, or if to offer burnt-offering or meal-offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings on it, let LORD himself require it, and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, from purpose, saying, In time to come your sons might speak to our sons, saying, What have ye to do with LORD, the God of Israel? For LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye sons of Reuben and sons of Gad. Ye have no portion in LORD. So your sons might make our sons cease from fearing LORD. Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice, but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of LORD before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, that your sons may n Therefore we said, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice, but it is Far be it from us that we should rebel against LORD, and turn away this day from following LORD, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of LORD our God that is before his tabern And when Phinehas the priest, and the rulers of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Manasseh, This day we know that LORD is in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this trespass against LORD. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the sons of Reuben, and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and brought them word again. And the thing pleased the sons of Israel. And the sons of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad dwelt. And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar [Ed]. For, [they said], it is a witness between us that LORD is God.

But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.

Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him, let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.

who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.