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

If someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess he has committed that sin.

“But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers—their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.”

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

The one who conceals his sins
will not prosper,
but whoever confesses and renounces them
will find mercy.

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

With the principal

“If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things, he must bring his restitution offering to the Lord: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel) as a restitution offering.

once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt—he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,

“The restitution offering is like the sin offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”