13 Bible Verses about Confession
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If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and have active faith in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.
Achan answered Joshua: Indeed I have sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel. This I have done.
Then Saul told Samuel: I have sinned by not following Jehovah's command or your instructions. I was afraid of the people and listened to them.
However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat the fruit.
The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.
For with the heart one believes for righteousness. And with the mouth one declares for salvation.
From Thematic Bible
Confession » Of Christ
I tell you, every one who confesses me before men; the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.
I baptize you with water because of your repentance. He that comes after me is mightier than I. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. I am not even good enough to carry his sandals.
I want you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed. And no person can say, Jesus is the Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God. Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.
Confession » Those that confess jesus Christ
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
I tell you, every one who confesses me before men; the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.
I will tell my heavenly Father about everyone who confesses me (witnesses to others about me) before men.
Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and have active faith in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes for righteousness. And with the mouth one declares for salvation. The scripture says: No one believing on him shall be disappointed. (Isaiah 28:16)
Confession » The reward for confessing sin
I confessed my sins to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O Jehovah. Then you forgave all my sins.
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.
However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me, I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt, I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land. read more.
The land, abandoned by them, will enjoy its time to honor Jehovah while it lies deserted without them. They must accept their guilt because they rejected my rules and looked at my laws with disgust. Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or look at them with disgust. I will not reject or cancel my promise to them, because I am Jehovah their God. For their well being, I will remember the promise to their ancestors. I brought them out of Egypt to be their God while nations looked on. I am Jehovah!'
This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live (practice) the truth. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. read more.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confession » Confessing your sins
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.
Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.
Jehovah said to Moses: Tell the Israelites: 'If you do something wrong to another person, you have been unfaithful to Jehovah. When you realize your guilt, you must confess your sin, pay in full for what you did wrong, add one-fifth to it, and give it to the person who was wronged.
Confession » The reward for confessing the lord
Trust in Jehovah with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge (recognize) Him and He will make your paths straight.
When your people Israel have sinned against you their enemies defeat them. They can turn to you and come to this Temple, humbly praying to you for forgiveness. Listen to them in heaven. Forgive the sins of your people and bring them back to the land that you gave to their ancestors. When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you, read more.
listen to them in heaven. Forgive the sins of the king and of the people of Israel, and teach them to do what is right. Then, O Jehovah, send rain on this land of yours, which you gave to your people as a permanent possession.
An enemy may defeat your people Israel because they have sinned against you. But when your people return, praise your name, pray, and plead with you in this Temple, then hear them in heaven, forgive the sins of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land that you gave to them and their ancestors.
Confession » Every tongue confessing the lord
For this reason God highly exalted him, and gave to him the name that is above every name, (Relative authority given by Jehovah God, the Father to His Son) (Philipians 2:11) that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Turn to me and be saved! Turn to me all who live at the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is no other. I have bound myself with an oath. A word has gone out from my righteous mouth that will not be recalled. Every knee will bow to me and every tongue will swear allegiance.
It is written: As I live, says Jehovah, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge (confess to) Jehovah. (Isaiah 45:23)
Confession » Who jesus Christ will confess
I tell you, every one who confesses me before men; the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.
I will tell my heavenly Father about everyone who confesses me (witnesses to others about me) before men.
To the angel of the congregation in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are [really] dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain that are at the point of death: for I have not found your works perfect (completed) before God. Remember what you received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not stay awake, I will come to you like a thief. You will not know the hour when I will come to you. read more.
You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He who overcomes will be clothed in white garments. I will not blot out his name from the book of life. In fact I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Confession » Those that do not confess jesus Christ
For many deceivers have gone into the world. They do not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.
Confession » Those that confess their sins
The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.
Prayer » Accompanied with » Confession
After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.
We have done great wrong against you. We have not obeyed the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
Repentance » Should be accompanied by » Confession
However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,
He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'
Topics on Confession
Confession Of Christ
Matthew 10:32I will tell my heavenly Father about everyone who confesses me (witnesses to others about me) before men.
Confession of sin
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confession, Examples Of
Numbers 12:11He said to Moses: Please, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin.
Sin, Confession Of
James 5:16Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.