The Sinner’s prayer...(the thought)

Sinners Prayer

 

1 John 1:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 76 helpful votes

 

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

Acts 2:38 ESV / 76 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.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 63 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 5:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 9:31 ESV / 61 helpful votes

 

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

James 5:16 ESV / 59 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 59 helpful votes

 

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

Mark 11:24 ESV / 58 helpful votes

 

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes

 

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Psalm 66:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

 

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 48 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.

1 John 5:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes

 

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

John 3:16 ESV / 43 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.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes

 

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes

 

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

 

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes

 

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes

 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 33 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. ...

Romans 3:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

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

Luke 13:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

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

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Luke 18:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

John 6:44 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Mark 2:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

James 4:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

Pray without ceasing,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Acts 2:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Acts 3:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

James 5:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 4:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 25 helpful votes

 

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

 

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes

 

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Esther 5:1-14 ESV / 24 helpful votes

 

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.” Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared. ...

Romans 10:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Romans 10:1-21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

Acts 2:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Titus 3:5 ESV / 21 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,

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

James 4:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 2:41 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 1:7 ESV / 19 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 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Romans 8:26 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Romans 5:6-15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. ...

Acts 17:30 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

1 John 1:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

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.

James 4:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Acts 16:30-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 15:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 14:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

 

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”