Thematic Bible: Should be accompanied with
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Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Prayer for forgiveness
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
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Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee. Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night? Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not.
And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, Jehovah, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
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Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
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Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Submission to punishment
But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this,
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so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
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Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Godly sorrow
See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved me, within, it is as death.
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For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.
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Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Forsaking sin
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
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Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Self-abasement
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved. And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Restitution
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty, then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall recompense his trespass according to the principal thereof, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.