100 Bible Verses About Guilt

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

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

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.

Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.