Remorse: General Scriptures Concerning
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Psalm 31:10
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Psalm 38:2–6
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. / There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. / For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Psalm 51:1–4, 7–17
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Proverbs 1:25–27
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, / in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, / when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Proverbs 5:7–13
So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth. / Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house, / lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Isaiah 2:19, 21
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. / They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
Isaiah 48:22
“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
Isaiah 57:20, 21
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. / “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Lamentations 1:20
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
Ezekiel 7:16–18, 25, 26
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity. / Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water. / They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
Ezekiel 33:10
Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
Acts 2:37
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 9:6
“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
1 John 3:20
Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.