In terms of sheer numbers, using the King James Version, the words shame, ashamed, and their derivatives far outdo guilt and guilty. The former are mentioned 224 times in the Bible, and the latter 23 times.
A statistical observation that shame is mentioned far more frequently than guilt in the King James Bible, noting a linguistic/theological emphasis.
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