Bible Verses About Sorrow for Sin

I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.