55 Bible Verses about Guilt

in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous,
Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

‘Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God
And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.

“Although you wash yourself with lye
And use much soap,
The stain of your iniquity is before Me,” declares the Lord God.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me and by which they have transgressed against Me.

‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

O God, it is You who knows my folly,
And my wrongs are not hidden from You.

I will go away and return to My place
Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

“Have I covered my transgressions like Adam,
By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

For my iniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the Lord a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

They will bear the punishment of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,

Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Hold them guilty, O God;
By their own devices let them fall!
In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out,
For they are rebellious against You.

Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
In whirlwind and storm is His way,
And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found,

For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Although their land is full of guilt
Before the Holy One of Israel.

Samaria will be held guilty,
For she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”

Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

“A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

We know our wickedness, O Lord,
The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

In those days and at that time,’ declares the Lord, ‘search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.’

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter
Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,

Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?

And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?