Thematic Bible: Should be accompanied with
Thematic Bible
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Prayer for forgiveness
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Verse Concepts
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.
David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."
Verse Concepts
For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Verse Concepts
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
Verse Concepts
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Submission to punishment
However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
Verse Concepts
"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
Verse Concepts
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
Verse Concepts
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Godly sorrow
See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
Verse Concepts
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Verse Concepts
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Forsaking sin
He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Verse Concepts
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Self-abasement
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved? For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Restitution
"Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.