Quotes About Guilt

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ëNo eye will see me,í he covers his face.

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt.

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ëI have done nothing wrong.í

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earthís dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,í” declares the LORD.

This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”