and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

“And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God;

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

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.