55 Bible Verses about Guilt

even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just—
both are detestable to the Lord.

If someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess he has committed that sin.

Only acknowledge your guilt—
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree
and have not obeyed My voice.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Even if you wash with lye
and use a great amount of soap,
the stain of your sin is still in front of Me.
This is the Lord God’s declaration.

Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.

If a thief is caught in the act of breaking in, and he is beaten to death, no one is guilty of bloodshed.

“I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean and have no guilt.

I will purify them from all the wrongs they have committed against Me, and I will forgive all the wrongs they have committed against Me, rebelling against Me.

“When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he is responsible for his sin.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

God, You know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.

I will depart and return to My place
until they recognize their guilt and seek My face;
they will search for Me in their distress.

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.

Have I covered my transgressions as others do
by hiding my guilt in my heart,

So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

“You must not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.

Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,

“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as that of the prophet—

Do not let your mouth bring guilt on you, and do not say in the presence of the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.
Drive them out because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against You.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of justice.

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.
His path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt—he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,

For Israel and Judah are not left widowed
by their God, the Lord of Hosts,
though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.

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

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.

“One witness cannot establish any wrongdoing or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Or if someone touches anything unclean—a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature—without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,
the guilt of our fathers;
indeed, we have sinned against You.

Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from Your sight, because they have provoked the builders.

“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”

In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
one will search for Israel’s guilt,
but there will be none,
and for Judah’s sins,
but they will not be found,
for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.

However, do this with gentleness and respect, keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are accused, those who denounce your Christian life will be put to shame.

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,

Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?