What Does the Bible Say About Shame And Guilt?

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Titus 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— ...

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Acts 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

1 Samuel 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.

Exodus 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

16 Bible Verses about Shame And Guilt

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 8:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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16 Bible Verses about Shame And Guilt

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Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Philippians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 8:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote