54 Bible Verses about Guilt

for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,

You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

"If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.

if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

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

if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.

And they shall bear their punishment--the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike--

Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found

For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

"A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.

or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;

"When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.

Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin."

In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess 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 stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

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