Numbers 5:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

Confess

1 John 1:8

With the principal

Bible References

Confess

And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing:

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

With the principal

If a soul commits a trespass, and sins through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with your valuation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

Then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he has deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that makes atonement with it shall have it.

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.