303 verses about Confession

Blessed is the man that has not slipped with his mouth, And is not pricked with sorrow for sins.

Return to the Lord, and forsake sins: Make your prayer before his face, and lessen the offence.

Before judgement examine yourself; And in the hour of visitation you will find forgiveness.

How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry; And he that makes confession will be kept back from hurt.

My son, have you sinned? add no more thereto; And make supplication for your former sins.

Even so a man fasting for his sins, And going again, and doing the same; Who will listen to his prayer? And what profit has he in his humiliation?

He will apply his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, And will make supplication before the Most High, And will open his mouth in prayer, And will make supplication for his sins.

Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.

And you⌃ shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly.

And you⌃ shall say, To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

for that we have sinned before the Lord,

since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not hearkening to his voice.

To the Lord our God belongs righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.

O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.

Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.

For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,

and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.

For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.

For we have sinned and committed iniquity, in departing from you.

In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments, nor kept them, neither done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us.

Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted;

And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.

that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;

and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices;

And when they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if ever they should sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen.

betook themselves to supplication, beseeching that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they had seen before their eyes what things had come to pass because of the sin of those who had fallen.

And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.

So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;

for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,

ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.

And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.

And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,

And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,

Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

Ezra 10:1. And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers,

But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their error.

for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.

I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I did not your will, neither kept I your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things.

Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.

I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:

but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent;

Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour.

If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.

He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.

Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, yet even we all are full of impiety:

therefore will I begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;

Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.

For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.

If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

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

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”

The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”

He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

that if you will 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 unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’” Isaiah 45:23

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.