Guilt And Shame

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. — read the full passage →

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. — read the full passage →

For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, — read the full passage →

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. — read the full passage →

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. — read the full passage →

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, — read the full passage →

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, — read the full passage →

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. — read the full passage →

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. — read the full passage →

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;