Confess...and thou shalt be saved/healed!

Confess You Sins

 

1 John 1:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 5:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Acts 19:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Psalm 32:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah ...

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 20:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Matthew 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Leviticus 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

When he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

1 John 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

James 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Romans 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 20:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

John 12:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Mark 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Matthew 10:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

1 John 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 John 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 1:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ...

James 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

James 5:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 14:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ...

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 20:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

John 20:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. ...

John 12:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

John 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Luke 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Mark 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 10:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Psalm 90:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psalm 51:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Psalm 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

Psalm 19:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

Numbers 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

He shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.

Leviticus 26:40-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 16:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.