Bible Cross References
confess
Numbers 5:7
[that person] shall confess the sin which he has committed, and shall make satisfaction for his trespass: he [shall pay] the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part, and shall make restoration to him against whom he has trespassed
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
29
And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find Him whenever you shall seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.
30
And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice.
31
Because the Lord your God [is] a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you; He will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord swore to them.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
1
And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before your face, and you shall call [them] to mind among all the nations in which the Lord has scattered you,
2
and shall return to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice, according to all things which I command you this day, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
3
then the Lord shall heal your iniquities, and shall pity you, and shall again gather you out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered you.
Joshua 7:19
And Joshua said to Achan, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession; and tell me what you have done, and do not hide it from me.
1 Kings 8:33-36
33
When Your people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin against You, and they shall return and confess to Your name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,
34
then shall You hear from heaven, and be gracious to the sins of Your people Israel, and You shall restore them to the land which You gave to their fathers.
35
When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against You, and they shall pray toward this place, and they shall make confession to Your name, and shall turn from their sins when You shall have humbled them,
36
then You shall hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of Your servant and of Your people Israel; for You shall show them the good way to walk in it, and You shall give rain upon the earth which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:47-36
Nehemiah 9:2-5
2
And the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3
And they stood in their place, and read in the Book of the Law of the Lord their God; and they confessed [their sins] to the Lord, and worshipped the Lord their God.
4
[And] there stood upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and the sons of Kadmiel, Shebaniah the son of Sarabia, sons of Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
5
And the Levites, Jeshua and Kadmiel, said, Rise up, bless the Lord our God forever and ever; and let them bless Your glorious name, and exalt it with all blessing and praise.
Job 33:27
Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.
Job 33:28
Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.
Psalm 32:5
I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity; I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord; and You forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.
Proverbs 28:13
He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper, but he that blames [himself] shall be loved.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
18
I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.
19
For after my captivity I repented, and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed You that I bore reproach from my youth.
20
Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:31
And you shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and you shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.
Daniel 9:3-20
3
And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek [Him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth.
4
And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping Your covenant and Your mercy to them that love You, and to them that keep Your commandments; we have sinned;
5
we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from Your commandments and from Your judgments;
6
we have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7
To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever You have scattered them, for the sin which they have committed.
8
In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us [belongs] confusion of face, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.
9
To you, O Lord our God, [belong] compassion and forgiveness, whereas we have departed [from You.]
10
Neither have we heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by the hands of His servants the prophets.
11
Moreover, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and have refused to heed Your voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
12
And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.
13
As it is written in the Law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not sought after the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all Your truth.
14
The Lord also has watched, and brought these evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all His work which He has executed, but we have not heeded His voice.
15
And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made to Yourself a name, as [it is] this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.
16
O Lord, Your mercy is over all: let Your wrath turn away, I pray, and Your anger from Your city Jerusalem, [even] Your holy mountain; for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach among all that are round about us.
17
And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine on Your desolate sanctuary, for Your [name's] sake, O Lord.
18
Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on [the grounds of] our righteousness, but [because of] Your manifold compassions, O Lord.
19
Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for Your own sake; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
20
And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.
Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.
Hosea 6:2
After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]
Luke 15:18
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
Luke 15:19
and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."'
1 John 1:8-10
8
If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10
If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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Leviticus 26:21
And if after this you should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey Me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:27
And if hereupon you will not obey Me, but walk perversely towards Me,
Leviticus 26:28
then will I walk contrary to you in fury, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.