Guilt (180 Occurrences)

Guilt

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Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
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Matthew 12:7 But if you had known what this means,'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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Matthew 23:32 Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.
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Matthew 23:35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
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Mark 3:29 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
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Luke 18:14 "I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."
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Luke 23:4 And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find no guilt in this man.
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Luke 23:14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
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Luke 23:22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
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John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say,'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
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John 16:8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
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John 18:38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
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John 19:4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
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John 19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
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Acts 25:18 concerning whom the accusers, standing up, brought no such accusation of guilt as I supposed;
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Romans 3:24 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 4:5 whereas in the case of a man who pleads no actions of his own, but simply believes in Him who declares the ungodly free from guilt, his faith is placed to his credit as righteousness.
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Romans 5:9 If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's anger through Him.
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Romans 8:30 and those whom He has pre-destined He also has called; and those whom He has called He has also declared free from guilt; and those whom He has declared free from guilt He has also crowned with glory.
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Romans 8:33 Who shall impeach those whom God has chosen? God declares them free from guilt.
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Romans 13:2 So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.
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1 Corinthians 6:11 And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
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Galatians 2:16 know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt.
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Galatians 2:17 But if while we are seeking in Christ acquittal from guilt we ourselves are convicted of sin, Christ then encourages us to sin! No, indeed.
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Galatians 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."
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Galatians 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that in consequence of faith God would declare the nations to be free from guilt, sent beforehand the Good News to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."
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Galatians 3:24 So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.
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Galatians 5:10 I have confidence as to you in the Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt of it, whosoever he may be.
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James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
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1 Peter 3:16 Yet argue modestly and cautiously, keeping your consciences free from guilt, so that, when you are spoken against, those who slander your good Christian lives may be put to shame.
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Genesis 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
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Genesis 26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
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Genesis 44:16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
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Exodus 22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
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Exodus 22:3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
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Exodus 28:38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
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Exodus 28:43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
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Leviticus 4:3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
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Leviticus 5:1 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
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Leviticus 5:7 And if his hand reach not to the sufficiency of a lamb, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering -- he who hath sinned -- two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to Jehovah, one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering;
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Leviticus 5:15 If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in the holy things of Jehovah; then he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering:
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Leviticus 5:16 and he shall make restitution for that which he hath done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and he shall be forgiven.
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Leviticus 5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing wherein he erred unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be forgiven.
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Leviticus 5:19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh."
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Leviticus 6:5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
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Leviticus 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the priest:
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Leviticus 6:7 The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty."
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Leviticus 6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering.
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Leviticus 7:1 And this is the law of the trespass-offering: it is most holy.
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Leviticus 7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the trespass-offering; and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle upon the altar round about.
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Leviticus 7:5 and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a trespass-offering.
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Leviticus 7:7 As is the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it.
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Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
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Leviticus 10:17 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
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Leviticus 14:12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah:
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Leviticus 14:13 and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy:
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Leviticus 14:14 and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
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Leviticus 14:17 and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering:
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Leviticus 14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil;
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Leviticus 14:24 and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah.
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Leviticus 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
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Leviticus 14:28 and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering:
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Leviticus 17:16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
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Leviticus 19:17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
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Leviticus 19:21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.
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Leviticus 19:22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned: and the sin which he hath sinned shall be forgiven him.
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Leviticus 20:17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
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Leviticus 20:19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
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Leviticus 22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
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Numbers 5:7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
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Numbers 5:8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
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Numbers 5:15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
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Numbers 5:28 If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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Numbers 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
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Numbers 6:12 And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
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Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'
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Numbers 15:31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"
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Numbers 18:1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
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Numbers 18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
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Numbers 30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."
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Deuteronomy 19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
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Deuteronomy 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
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Deuteronomy 21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.
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Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
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Deuteronomy 24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
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1 Samuel 3:14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever."
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1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
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1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Jehovah, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
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1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering unto Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the people escaped.
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1 Samuel 20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
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1 Samuel 20:8 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."
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1 Samuel 25:24 She fell at his feet, and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.
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1 Samuel 26:9 David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?"
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1 Samuel 26:18 Then said Abishai to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."
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2 Samuel 3:8 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman!
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2 Samuel 14:9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless."
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Thesaurus

Guilt (180 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
GUILT. ... The idea of guilt corresponds to that of righteousness or holiness. ...
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Guilt-offering (34 Occurrences)
Guilt-offering. Guiltless, Guilt-offering. Guilty . Multi-Version
Concordance Guilt-offering (34 Occurrences). Leviticus ...
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Adding (20 Occurrences)
... he repayeth, and its fifth is adding to it, and hath given it to the priest, and
the priest maketh atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering, and it ...
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Shame (412 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety,
or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of ...
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Innocent (97 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. ...
7. (n.) An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. ...
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Restitution (21 Occurrences)
... sheep. (See RSV). Exodus 22:3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be
guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If ...
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Accountability
... too great a premium on ignorance; and a real difficulty arises when we say that,
the more of moral sensitiveness there is, the greater is the guilt; because as ...
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Valued (27 Occurrences)
... unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy valuation
in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt-offering ...
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Fierceness (33 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 28:13 and say to them, 'Ye do not bring in the captives hither, for,
to guilt against Jehovah on us, ye are saying to add unto our sin and unto ...
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Clear (641 Occurrences)
... 7. (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear
complexion; clear lumber. 8. (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

2. (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

GUILT

gilt: The Christian idea of guilt involves three elements: responsibility (Greek aitia, "cause," depending upon a man's real freedom), blameworthiness (Latin reatus culpae, depending upon a man's knowledge and purpose) and the obligation to make good through punishment or compensation (Latin reatus poenae; compare Greek opheilema, "debt," Matthew 6:12). In other words, in thinking of guilt we ask the questions of cause, motive and consequence, the central idea being that of the personal blameworthiness of the sinner.

I. In the Old Testament.

1. The Ritualistic and Legalistic Conception:

Not all of this is found at once in the Old Testament. The idea of guilt corresponds to that of righteousness or holiness. When these are ritual and legal, instead of ethical and spiritual, they will determine similarly the idea of guilt. This legalistic and ritualistic conception of guilt may first be noted. Personal blameworthiness does not need to be present. "If any one sin, and do any of the things which Yahweh hath commanded not to be done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity" (Leviticus 5:17). The man is guilty, not because he might or should have known; he may merely have touched unwittingly the body of an unclean beast (Leviticus 5:2, 3). The guilt is here because the law has been transgressed and must be made good (compare Leviticus 5:15, 16; Leviticus 4:2, 3, 13, 12, 27; see also 5:2, 3, 4, 17).

Moreover, the element of personal responsibility is sometimes lacking where guilt is assigned. The priest may sin "so as to bring guilt on the people" (Leviticus 4:3). One man's wrongdoing may "cause the land to sin" (Deuteronomy 24:4). Israel has sinned in Achan's greed and therefore suffers. Even when the guilty man is found, his children and his very cattle must bear the guilt and punishment with him, though there is no suggestion of their participation or even knowledge (Joshua 7; compare 2 Samuel 24). Here the full moral idea of sin and guilt is wanting because the idea of personality and personal responsibility has not come to its own. The individual is still merged here in the clan or nation.

The central idea in all this is not that of the individual, his responsibility, his motive, his blame. It is that of a rule and the transgression of it, which must be made good. For this reason we see the ideas of sin and guilt and punishment constantly passing over into each other. This may be seen by noting the use of the words whose common root is '-sh-m, the distinctive Hebrew term for guilt. In Leviticus 5 to 7 in the adjective form it is rendered "guilty," in the noun as "trespass offering." In Hosea 5:15 it seems to mean punishment (see margin, "have borne their guilt," and compare Ezekiel 6:6), while in Numbers 5:7, 8 the idea is that of compensation (rendered "restitution for guilt").

2. Prophetic Teaching:

With the prophets, the ideas of sin and righteousness come out more clearly as ethical and personal, and so we mark a similar advance in the conception of guilt. It is not ritual correctness that counts with God, incense and sacrifices and new moons and Sabbaths, but to cease to do evil, to learn to do well (Isaiah 1). Thus the motive and the inner spirit come in (Micah 6:8 Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 58:1-12), and guilt gains a new depth and quality. At the same time the idea of personal responsibility comes. A man is to bear his own sins. The children's teeth are not to be set on edge because the fathers have eaten sour grapes (Jeremiah 31:29, 30 Ezekiel 18:29-32 2 Kings 14:6; compare 2 Samuel 24:17).

II. In the New Testament.

1. With Jesus:

Here as elsewhere Jesus came to fulfill. With Him it is the inner attitude of the soul that decides. It is the penitent publican who goes down justified, not the Pharisee with his long credit account (Luke 18:9-14). That is why His attitude is so kindly toward some notorious sinners and so stern toward some religious leaders. The Pharisees are outwardly correct, but their spirit of bigotry and pride prevents their entering the kingdom of heaven, while the penitent harlots and publicans take it by storm.

Because it is not primarily a matter of the outward deed but of the inner spirit, Jesus marks different degrees of guilt as depending upon a man's knowledge and motive (Luke 11:29-32; Luke 12:47, 48; 23:34). And yet Jesus does not lighten the sense of guilt but rather deepens it. The strength of the Old Testament thought lay in this, that it viewed all transgression as a sin against God, since all law came from Him. This religious emphasis remains with Jesus (Luke 15:21; compare Psalm 51:4). But with Jesus God is far more than a giver of rules. He gives Himself. And so the guilt is the deeper because the sin is against this love and mercy and fellowship which God offers us. Jesus shows us the final depth of evil in sin. Here comes the New Testament interpretation of the cross, which shows it on the one hand as the measure of God's love in the free gift of His Son, and on the other as the measure of man's guilt whose sin wrought this and made it necessary.

2. With Paul:

Paul also recognizes differences of degree in guilt, the quality of blameworthiness which is not simply determined by looking at the outward transgression (Acts 17:30 Ephesians 4:18 Romans 2:9; Romans 3:26; Romans 5:13; Romans 7:13). He, too, looks within to decide the question of guilt (Romans 14:23). But sin is not a matter of single acts or choices with Paul. He sees it as a power that comes to rule a man's life and that rules in the race. The question therefore arises, Does Paul think of guilt also as native, as belonging to man because man is a part of the race? Here it can merely be pointed out that Romans 5:12-21 does not necessarily involve this. Paul is not discussing whether all men committed sin in Adam's fall, or whether all are guilty by virtue of their very place in a race that is sinful. It is not the question of guilt in fact or degree, but merely the fact that through one man men are now made righteous as before through one sin came upon them all. This no more involves native guilt as a non-ethical conception than it does the idea that the righteousness through Christ is merely forensic and non-ethical. Paul is simply passing over the other elements to assert one fact. Romans 1 suggests how Paul looked at universal sin as involving guilt because universal knowledge and choice entered in.

See also SIN.

LITERATURE.

Mueller, Christian Doctrine of Sin, I, 193-267; Schultz, Old Testament Theology; Kaehler, article "Schuld," Hauck-Herzog, Realencyklopadie fur protestantische Theologie und Kirche.

Harris Franklin Rall

GUILT OFFERING

See SACRIFICE.

Greek

156. aitia -- cause, reason
... Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-tee'-a) Short Definition: a cause, reason, charge Definition:
a cause, reason, excuse; a charge, accusation; guilt; circumstances, case ...
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159a. aitios -- causative of, responsible for
... 159, 159a. aitios. 159b . causative of, responsible for. Transliteration:
aitios Short Definition: guilt. Word Origin from aitia ...
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53. hagnos -- free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred
... unadultered); pure ; because (undefiled from sin), ie without spoilation even within
(even down to the center of one's being); not with guilt or anything ...
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266. hamartia -- a sin, failure
... Feminine Transliteration: hamartia Phonetic Spelling: (ham-ar-tee'-ah) Short Definition:
a sin Definition: prop: missing the mark; hence: (a) guilt, sin, (b) a ...
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4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... ie Diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, ie Derelict, vicious, facinorous;
neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular ...
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3996. pentheo -- to mourn, lament
... lament. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pentheo Phonetic Spelling:
(pen-theh'-o) Short Definition: I mourn, lament Definition: I mourn, lament, feel ...
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3148. mastix -- a whip, scourge
... plague"). "The plague () or scourge, was a whip used in flagellations, as
on Paul, to find out his guilt (Ac 22:24, cf. Heb 11:26). ...
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158. aition -- cause, fault.
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aition Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-tee-on)
Short Definition: cause, crime Definition: cause, crime, guilt, criminality. ...
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3341. metanoia -- change of mind, repentance
... repentance. From metanoeo; (subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including
reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision) -- repentance. ...
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2631. katakrima -- penalty
... Cognate: 2631 (from 2596 , ", according to," intensifying 2917 , "the results of ") --
properly, the exact of condemnation handed after due (establishing guilt ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Topicalbible.org

Strong's Hebrew

817. asham -- offense, guilt
... 816, 817. asham. 818 . offense, guilt. Transliteration: asham Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-shawm') Short Definition: offering. Word Origin ...
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5772a. onah -- guilt
... onah. 5772b . guilt. Transliteration: onah Short Definition: guilt. Word Origin
from the same as avon Definition guilt NASB Word Usage guilt (1). 5772, 5772a ...
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5771. avon -- iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity
... avon or avon. 5772 . iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Transliteration:
avon or avon Phonetic Spelling: (aw-vone') Short Definition: iniquity. ...
/hebrew/5771.htm - 6k

5772. ownah -- guilt
... 5771, 5772. ownah. 5772a . guilt. Transliteration: ownah Phonetic Spelling:
(o-naw') Short Definition: marriage. duty of marriage ...
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819. ashmah -- wrongdoing, guiltiness
... 818, 819. ashmah. 820 . wrongdoing, guiltiness. Transliteration: ashmah Phonetic
Spelling: (ash-maw') Short Definition: guilt. Word Origin fem. ...
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816. asham -- to offend, be guilty
... root Definition to offend, be guilty NASB Word Usage acknowledge their guilt (1),
bear their guilt (1), became guilty (1), become guilty (3), becomes guilty (4 ...
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5352. naqah -- to be empty or clean
... innocent (1), leave unpunished (2), means leave (4), by means leave unpunished
(2), by means leave unpunished (2), purged (2), unpunished (1), without guilt (1 ...
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2054. vazar -- criminal, guilty
... strange. Presumed to be from an unused root meaning to bear guilt; crime --
X strange. 2053, 2054. vazar. 2055 . Strong's Numbers.
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1818. dam -- blood
... root Definition blood NASB Word Usage blood (303), bloodguilt (2), bloodguiltiness
(12), bloodshed (27), bloody (7), death (1), guilt of blood (2), homicide or ...
/hebrew/1818.htm - 6k

7564. rishah -- wickedness
... Word Origin from the same as rasha Definition wickedness NASB Word Usage evildoer*
(1), guilt (1), wickedly (1), wickedness (11). fault, wickedness. ...
/hebrew/7564.htm - 6k

Library

Our Guilt.
... XIV. Our Guilt. ... Sin and guilt belong together, but may not be confounded or considered
synonymous, any more than sanctification and righteousness. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xiv our guilt.htm

The Cause or Guilt of this Unbelief as Well as of all Other Sins ...
... First Head of Doctrine. Divine Election and Reprobation Article 5 The cause
or guilt of this unbelief as well as of all other sins is� ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/the canons of dordt/article 5 the cause or.htm

Whether the Forgiveness of Guilt is an Effect of Penance?
... OF THE EFFECT OF PENANCE, AS REGARDS THE PARDON OF MORTAL SIN (SIX ARTICLES)
Whether the forgiveness of guilt is an effect of Penance? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the forgiveness of guilt.htm

The Guilt and Folly of Denying God.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN VI. The Guilt and Folly of denying God. 8.8.8.8 James Montgomery.
The Guilt and Folly of denying God. "There is a God," all Nature cries,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn vi the guilt and.htm

Psalm 38. Guilt of Conscience and Relief; Or, Repentance, and ...
... THE Psalms of David, In Metre. Psalm 38. Guilt of conscience and relief;
or, Repentance, and prayer for pardon and health. 1 Amidst ...
/.../watts/the psalms of david/psalm 38 guilt of conscience.htm

Whether Carnal Sins are of Less Guilt than Spiritual Sins?
... OF THE COMPARISON OF ONE SIN WITH ANOTHER (TEN ARTICLES) Whether carnal
sins are of less guilt than spiritual sins? Objection 1: It ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether carnal sins are of.htm

The Aggravated Guilt of Him who Delivered Christ to Pilate.
... SERMON XII. The aggravated Guilt of him who delivered Christ to Pilate. John
xix.10, 11. "Then saith Pilate unto him, 'Speakest thou not unto me? ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xii the aggravated guilt.htm

A Lamb Bears all the Guilt Away.
... A LAMB BEARS ALL THE GUILT AWAY. Isa. ... A Lamb bears all its guilt away The world thus
to deliver, All sins of sinners patiently It bears and murmurs never. ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/a lamb bears all the.htm

Guilt of Exposing Children.
... Chapter XXVII."Guilt of exposing children. But as for us, we have been
taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of ...
/.../justin/the first apology of justin/chapter xxvii guilt of exposing children.htm

The Guilt of the First Sin is So Great that it Can be Washed Away ...
... Chapter 48."The Guilt of the First Sin is So Great that It Can Be Washed
Away Only in the Blood of the Mediator, Jesus Christ. ...
/.../augustine/the enchiridion/chapter 48 the guilt of the.htm

Subtopics

Complicity: General Scriptures Concerning

Complicity: Paul, in the Stoning of Stephen

Complicity: Pilate, in the Death of Jesus

Complicity: The Daughter of Herodias, in Asking for the Head of John the Baptist

Guilt

Guilt Offering

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