If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins(A) and purify us from all unrighteousness.(B)

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Then I acknowledged my sin to you
    and did not cover up my iniquity.(A)
I said, “I will confess(B)
    my transgressions(C) to the Lord.”
And you forgave
    the guilt of my sin.(D)

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13 Whoever conceals their sins(A) does not prosper,
    but the one who confesses(B) and renounces them finds mercy.(C)

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I will cleanse(A) them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive(B) all their sins of rebellion against me.

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Wash away(A) all my iniquity
    and cleanse(B) me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions,
    and my sin is always before me.(C)
Against you, you only, have I sinned(D)
    and done what is evil in your sight;(E)
so you are right in your verdict
    and justified when you judge.(F)
Surely I was sinful(G) at birth,(H)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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But if we walk in the light,(A) as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[a] sin.(B)

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  1. 1 John 1:7 Or every

25 I will sprinkle(A) clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse(B) you from all your impurities(C) and from all your idols.(D)

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23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope(A) we profess,(B) for he who promised is faithful.(C)

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15 Here is a trustworthy saying(A) that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners(B)—of whom I am the worst.

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let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

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23 They will no longer defile(A) themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,[a](B) and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.(C)

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  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts all their dwelling places where they sinned

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(A) he is the faithful God,(B) keeping his covenant of love(C) to a thousand generations(D) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(E)

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23 They are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.(A)

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27 And they will go to others and say,
    ‘I have sinned,(A) I have perverted what is right,(B)
    but I did not get what I deserved.(C)
28 God has delivered(D) me from going down to the pit,(E)
    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’(F)

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14 who gave himself for us(A) to redeem us from all wickedness(B) and to purify(C) for himself a people that are his very own,(D) eager to do what is good.(E)

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18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.

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The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

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12 But who can discern their own errors?
    Forgive my hidden faults.(A)

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Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.(A) They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.(B) They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God. Standing on the stairs of the Levites(C) were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Kenani. They cried out with loud voices to the Lord their God. And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God,(D) who is from everlasting to everlasting.[a]

“Blessed be your glorious name,(E) and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the Lord.(F) You made the heavens,(G) even the highest heavens, and all their starry host,(H) the earth(I) and all that is on it, the seas(J) and all that is in them.(K) You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven(L) worship you.

“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram(M) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans(N) and named him Abraham.(O) You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites.(P) You have kept your promise(Q) because you are righteous.(R)

“You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt;(S) you heard their cry at the Red Sea.[b](T) 10 You sent signs(U) and wonders(V) against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name(W) for yourself,(X) which remains to this day. 11 You divided the sea before them,(Y) so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths,(Z) like a stone into mighty waters.(AA) 12 By day(AB) you led(AC) them with a pillar of cloud,(AD) and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(AE) you spoke(AF) to them from heaven.(AG) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(AH) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(AI) 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath(AJ) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. 15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(AK) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(AL) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(AM) to give them.(AN)

16 “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked,(AO) and they did not obey your commands.(AP) 17 They refused to listen and failed to remember(AQ) the miracles(AR) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked(AS) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.(AT) But you are a forgiving God,(AU) gracious and compassionate,(AV) slow to anger(AW) and abounding in love.(AX) Therefore you did not desert them,(AY) 18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf(AZ) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.(BA)

19 “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon(BB) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud(BC) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. 20 You gave your good Spirit(BD) to instruct(BE) them. You did not withhold your manna(BF) from their mouths, and you gave them water(BG) for their thirst. 21 For forty years(BH) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(BI) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(BJ)

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[c](BK) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.(BL) 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(BM) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess. 24 Their children went in and took possession of the land.(BN) You subdued(BO) before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land;(BP) they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things,(BQ) wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished;(BR) they reveled in your great goodness.(BS)

26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(BT) They killed(BU) your prophets,(BV) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(BW) 27 So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,(BX) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion(BY) you gave them deliverers,(BZ) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

28 “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight.(CA) Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion(CB) you delivered them(CC) time after time.

29 “You warned(CD) them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant(CE) and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’(CF) Stubbornly they turned their backs(CG) on you, became stiff-necked(CH) and refused to listen.(CI) 30 For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets.(CJ) Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.(CK) 31 But in your great mercy you did not put an end(CL) to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful(CM) God.

32 “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty(CN) and awesome,(CO) who keeps his covenant of love,(CP) do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship(CQ) that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today. 33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous;(CR) you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.(CS) 34 Our kings,(CT) our leaders, our priests and our ancestors(CU) did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep. 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness(CV) to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you(CW) or turn from their evil ways.

36 “But see, we are slaves(CX) today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces. 37 Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.(CY)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:5 Or God for ever and ever
  2. Nehemiah 9:9 Or the Sea of Reeds
  3. Nehemiah 9:22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of the

37 and if they have a change of heart(A) in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly’; 38 and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;

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47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead(A) with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;(B)

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40 “‘But if they will confess(A) their sins(B) and the sins of their ancestors(C)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(D) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(E) are humbled(F) and they pay(G) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(H) and my covenant with Isaac(I) and my covenant with Abraham,(J) and I will remember the land.

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11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age,(A) was enabled to bear children(B) because she[a] considered him faithful(C) who had made the promise.

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  1. Hebrews 11:11 Or By faith Abraham, even though he was too old to have children—and Sarah herself was not able to conceive—was enabled to become a father because he

10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.(A)

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