The word in Scripture

Transgression in the Bible

The word transgression appears 51 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Transgression is stepping over God's law, willful crossing of the line. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What transgression means in the Bible

Transgression is stepping over God's law, willful crossing of the line.

Where the word transgression appears

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

“The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.”Psalms 36:1

“Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.”Psalms 89:32

“Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.”Proverbs 28:24

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.”Isaiah 58:1

“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.”Isaiah 59:20

“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”Romans 4:15

“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”Romans 5:14

“For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;”Hebrews 2:2