The word in Scripture

Iniquity in the Bible

The word iniquity appears 278 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Iniquity is crookedness and guilt, sin bent against God's ways. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What iniquity means in the Bible

Iniquity is crookedness and guilt, sin bent against God's ways.

Where the word iniquity appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word iniquity appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”Psalms 31:10

“Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.”Psalms 69:27

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”Isaiah 53:6

“None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”Isaiah 59:4

“And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”Matthew 7:23

“But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.”Luke 13:27

“I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”Romans 6:19

“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”Hebrews 1:9