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Bible Verses About Confession and Guilt
Some things no one knows, yet they sit at the bottom of you. Guilt is quiet but heavy — it digs up the same thing at night, makes you feel you can never come clean, and leaves you not knowing where owning it would even begin.
Here are eight passages from the Bible about confession and guilt. They don’t scold you, and they don’t press you to account for anything right now. They lay owning it, and setting it down, one verse at a time, and let you read slowly.
What the Bible Says About Confession and Guilt
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Psalm 51:1-2
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalm 32:1-2
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalm 51:17
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Psalm 130:3-4
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:1
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
Hebrews 8:12
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
2 Corinthians 7:10