And when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children, for the people wept with a great weeping.

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins and the sins of their fathers.

And they stood up in their place, and read in the Book of the Law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day. And another fourth part they confessed and worshiped Jehovah their God.

I confessed my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy.

And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, I am not the Christ.

His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

And many who believed came and confessed and showed their deeds.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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