Job 42:6
42:6 Therefore I despise myself,
and I repent in dust and ashes!
Isaiah 6:5
6:5 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.”
Isaiah 64:6
64:6 We are all like one who is unclean,
all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.
We all wither like a leaf;
our sins carry us away like the wind.
Zechariah 12:10-11
12:10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
12:11 On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Luke 18:13
18:13 The tax collector, however, stood
far off and would not even look up
to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful
to me, sinner that I am!’
Romans 6:21
6:21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:2
6:2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Colossians 1:10-11
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully