'Transgression' in the Bible

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.

who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.

Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

“Why then do You not pardon my transgressionAnd take away my iniquity?For now I will lie down in the dust;And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

“If your sons sinned against Him,Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.

“My transgression is sealed up in a bag,And You wrap up my iniquity.

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

Should I lie concerning my right?My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

“And now, because He has not visited in His anger,Nor has He acknowledged transgression well,

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;Let them not rule over me;Then I will be blameless,And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

A Psalm of David. A Maskil.How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,Whose sin is covered!

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;There is no fear of God before his eyes.

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;Fierce men launch an attack against me,Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

Then I will punish their transgression with the rodAnd their iniquity with stripes.

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,But he who restrains his lips is wise.

An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,But the righteous will escape from trouble.

He who conceals a transgression seeks love,But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.

He who loves transgression loves strife;He who raises his door seeks destruction.

A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

By the transgression of a land many are its princes,But by a man of understanding and knowledge, so it endures.

He who robs his father or his motherAnd says, “It is not a transgression,”Is the companion of a man who destroys.

By transgression an evil man is ensnared,But the righteous sings and rejoices.

When the wicked increase, transgression increases;But the righteous will see their fall.

An angry man stirs up strife,And a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

The earth reels to and fro like a drunkardAnd it totters like a shack,For its transgression is heavy upon it,And it will fall, never to rise again.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away;And as for His generation, who consideredThat He was cut off out of the land of the livingFor the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;Raise your voice like a trumpet,And declare to My people their transgressionAnd to the house of Jacob their sins.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion,And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares the Lord.

And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, ‘The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper.

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, “How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?”

“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

“Enter Bethel and transgress;In Gilgal multiply transgression!Bring your sacrifices every morning,Your tithes every three days.