'Guilty' in the Bible
I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable! If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you forever.
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “Yahweh is the Righteous One, and I and my people are the guilty ones.
If a thief is caught in the act of breaking in, and he is beaten to death, no one is guilty of bloodshed.
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.
maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
“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.
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.
Or if he touches human uncleanness—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he is guilty.
It is a restitution offering; he is indeed guilty before the Lord.”
If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will be responsible for his sin.
They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.
“Tell the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any sin against another, that person acts unfaithfully toward the Lord and is guilty.
But if that individual has no relative to receive compensation, the compensation goes to the Lord for the priest, along with the atonement ram by which the priest will make atonement for the guilty person.
The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.
Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.
In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.
“If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.
If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.
When their fathers or brothers come to us and protest, we will tell them, ‘Show favor to them, since we did not get enough wives for each of them in the battle. You didn’t actually give the women to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath.’”
“Look,” Absalom explained to Joab, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? I’d be better off if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king. If I am guilty, let him kill me.”
and said to him, “My lord, don’t hold me guilty, and don’t remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
After this, Judah’s King Jehoshaphat made an alliance with Israel’s King Ahaziah, who was guilty of wrongdoing.
Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before Yahweh your God?
They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;
Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.
I will say to God:“Do not declare me guilty!Let me know why You prosecute me.
He will even rescue the guilty one,who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.
But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?When He hides His face, who can see Him?Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,
Would you really challenge My justice?Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?
Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.
God, You know my foolishness,and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.
When he is judged, let him be found guilty,and let his prayer be counted as sin.
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just—both are detestable to the Lord.
It is not good to show partiality to the guiltyby perverting the justice due the innocent.
A guilty man’s conduct is crooked,but the behavior of the innocent is upright.
Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent”—people will curse him, and tribes will denounce him;
but it will go well with those who convict the guilty,and a generous blessing will come to them.
Don’t slander a servant to his masteror he will curse you, and you will become guilty.
who acquit the guilty for a bribeand deprive the innocent of justice.
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.
Israel was holy to the Lord,the firstfruits of His harvest.All who ate of it found themselves guilty;disaster came on them.”This is the Lord’s declaration.
Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,
All who found them devoured them.Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;instead, they have sinned against the Lord,their righteous grazing land,the hope of their ancestors, the Lord.”
You are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
Israel, if you act promiscuously,don’t let Judah become guilty!Do not go to Gilgalor make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!
They hate the one who convicts the guiltyat the city gateand despise the one who speaks with integrity.
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.
Then they sweep by like the windand pass through.They are guilty; their strength is their god.