Proverbs 28:13

All About Life

¹² When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves. ¹³ He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy. ¹⁴ Happy is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.

Have Mercy

In Me

Obtain Mercy

Job 31:33

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

Psalm 32:3-5

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

1 John 1:8-10

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

Genesis 3:12-13

And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

Genesis 4:9

And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

Exodus 10:16-17

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against LORD your God, and against you.

Leviticus 26:40-42

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

1 Samuel 15:13

And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, Blessed be thou of LORD. I have performed the commandment of LORD.

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of LORD, and thy words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then he said, I have sinned. Yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship LORD thy God.

1 Kings 8:47-49

yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to thee in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have

Job 33:27

He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

Psalm 51:1-5

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:10

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

Proverbs 17:9

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

Jeremiah 2:22-23

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.

Daniel 9:20-23

And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God,

Matthew 3:6-10

and they were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

Matthew 23:25-28

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

Matthew 27:4-5

saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.

Luke 15:18-24

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.

Acts 26:20

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.