Confess

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;

It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house.” — read the full passage →

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. — read the full passage →

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. — read the full passage →

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. — read the full passage →

Give us today our daily bread. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, — read the full passage →

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — read the full passage →

But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; — read the full passage →

Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →