55 Bible Verses about Guilt

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1 John 3:20

that if our heart accuses us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Leviticus 5:5

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

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Proverbs 28:17

A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.

Exodus 22:2

If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, no blood shall be shed for him.

Job 33:9

You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and no iniquity is in me;

Jeremiah 33:8

And 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, and by which they have transgressed against Me.

Leviticus 5:1

And if a soul sins and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, and he has seen or known, if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Hosea 5:15

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.

Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Psalm 38:4

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

Ezra 10:10

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have sinned, and have taken strange women to increase the sin of Israel.

Leviticus 4:3

if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull, a son of the herd without blemish, to Jehovah for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 14:10

And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be.

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the angel that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Psalm 5:10

Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Leviticus 6:4

then, it shall be, because he sinned and is guilty, he shall pay back that which he got by robbery, if he robbed; or the thing extorted which he extorted; or the deposit which had been deposited with him; or the lost thing which he had found;

Jeremiah 51:5

For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken by his God, by Jehovah of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Luke 23:4

And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and they who dwell in it are deserted; therefore the people of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be made sure.

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether a dead body of an unclean beast, or a dead body of unclean cattle, or the dead body of unclean swarming things, and if it is hidden from him that he is unclean and guilty--

Deuteronomy 22:8

When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

Nehemiah 4:5

And do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You. For they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and it shall not be found; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Romans 3:19

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

Psalm 7:3

O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

Zechariah 11:5

those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.

Hebrews 10:2

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

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Guilt » Joseph's brethren

Genesis 42:21

And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

Exodus 9:27

And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Guilt » Israel in the wilderness

Numbers 21:7

And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah and against you. Pray to Jehovah that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Guilt » The psalmist

Psalm 40:12

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Guilt » The scribes and pharisees

John 8:9

And hearing, and being convicted by conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Guilt » The jews of ezra's time

Ezra 9:6

And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God. For our iniquities have increased over our heads, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Topics on Guilt

Blood, as symbol of guilt

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:17

And if a soul sins, and he has done that which ought not to be done, any one from all the commands of Jehovah, and does not know, and he is guilty and bears his iniquity;

Guilt, Human Aspects Of

Psalm 51:3-5

For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.

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