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Bible Verses About confession

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Discover 13 powerful Bible verses about confession. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential theology & doctrine topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 John 1:9
King James (KJV)If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

13 Key Scriptures

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

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