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2 Samuel 24 10
David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“ I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
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Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
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Proverbs 28:13
The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
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Zechariah 3:4
The angel spoke up to those standing all around,“ Remove his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua,“ I have freely forgiven your iniquity and will dress you in fine clothing.”
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Luke 15:21
Then his son said to him,‘ Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
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Micah 7:18-19
There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.
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Psalms 32:1-5
How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven, whose sin is pardoned!How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.( Selah)Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“ I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.( Selah)
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1 Samuel 15 30
Saul again replied,“ I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the LORD your God.”
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Psalms 51:4
Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
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Acts 13:38-39
Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
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Isaiah 38:17
“ Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
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Isaiah 6:5-7
I said,“ Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD who commands armies.”But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.He touched my mouth with it and said,“ Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.”
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Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“ What should we do, brothers?”
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Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
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1 Samuel 15 20
Then Saul said to Samuel,“ But I have obeyed the LORD! I went on the campaign the LORD sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
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Isaiah 43:24
You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
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Isaiah 44:22
I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”
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Job 7:20-21
If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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Leviticus 24:17
“‘ If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
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2 Chronicles 24 20-2 Chronicles 24 22
God’s Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them,“ This is what God says:‘ Why are you violating the commands of the LORD? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the LORD, he has rejected you!’”They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s son. As Zechariah was dying, he said,“ May the LORD take notice and seek vengeance!”
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Proverbs 25:12
Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
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Numbers 35:31-33
Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.“ You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
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Hebrews 9:26
for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
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2 Chronicles 25 16
While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him,“ Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added,“ I know that the LORD has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
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Romans 8:33-34
Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died( and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
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Psalms 51:16
Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
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2 Chronicles 16 10
Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
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1 Kings 22 8
The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat,“ There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said,“ The king should not say such things.”
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1John 1:7-2:1
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1 Kings 21 20
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him,“ So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied,“ I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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1 Samuel 15 24-1 Samuel 15 25
Then Saul said to Samuel,“ I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the LORD commanded and what you said as well. For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes.Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the LORD.”
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1 Kings 13 4
When the king heard what the prophet cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand and ordered,“ Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up and he could not pull it back.
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Job 33:27
That person sings to others, saying:‘ I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
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Matthew 14:10
So he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.
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Psalms 130:3-4
If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.
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Lamentations 3:32
Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
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Matthew 14:3-5
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,because John had repeatedly told him,“ It is not lawful for you to have her.”Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.
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2 Kings 1 9
The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him,“ Prophet, the king says,‘ Come down!’”