Confession

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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. — read the full passage →

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

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

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

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

“‘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 →

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

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 →

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

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

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.

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 →

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 →

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

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,

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 →

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. — read the full passage →

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 →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

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. — read the full passage →

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

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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.

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 →

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.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’” — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.