Bible Verses About Sin (1)

When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, "I will confess my offenses to ADONAI"; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)

Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;

for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.

ADONAI, don't withhold your mercy from me. Let your grace and truth preserve me always.

For numberless evils surround me; my iniquities engulf me - I can't even see; there are more of them than hairs on my head, so that my courage fails me.

I said, "ADONAI, have pity on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!" 830

Wash me completely from my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all the time.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and justified in passing sentence.

True, I was born guilty, was a sinner from the moment my mother conceived me.

God, you know how foolish I am; my guilt is not hidden from you.

When I had a sour attitude and felt stung by pained emotions,

I was too stupid to understand; I was like a brute beast with you.

But he repays them as their guilt deserves; he will cut them off with their own evil; ADONAI our God will cut them off.

Together with our ancestors, we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly.

I thought about my ways and turned my feet toward your instruction.

I hurry, I don't delay, to observe your mitzvot.

I strayed like a lost sheep; seek out your servant; for I do not forget your mitzvot.

Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.

The wise win honor, but fools win shame.

A wicked person's own crimes will trap him, he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin.

He will die from lack of discipline; the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.