13 (A)He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Read full chapter

When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.
For day and night Your (A)hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not hidden.
(B)I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Read full chapter

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we (A)confess our sins, He is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to (C)cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we (D)make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

Read full chapter

33 If I have covered my transgressions (A)as[a] Adam,
By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or as men do

27 Then he looks at men and (A)says,
‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right,
And it (B)did not profit me.’

Read full chapter

The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy

20 Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man (A)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [a]being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the [b]command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly (B)beloved; therefore (C)consider the matter, and understand the vision:

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:21 Or being weary with weariness
  2. Daniel 9:23 Lit. word

22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is (A)marked[a] before Me,” says the Lord God.

23 “How(B) can you say, ‘I am not [b]polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:22 stained
  2. Jeremiah 2:23 defiled

A Prayer of Repentance

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David (A)when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

51 Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your lovingkindness;
According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
(B)Blot out my transgressions.
(C)Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
(D)Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil (E)in Your sight—
(F)That You may be found just [a]when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.

(G)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:4 LXX, Tg., Vg. in Your words

12 Go and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say:

‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am (B)merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not remain angry forever.
13 (C)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (D)scattered your [a]charms
To (E)alien deities (F)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways

24 (A)Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I (B)feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Read full chapter

16 Then Pharaoh called (A)for Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, (B)“I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. 17 Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and (C)entreat[a] the Lord your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 10:17 make supplication to

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

20 “And he arose and came to his father. But (B)when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven (C)and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22 “But the father said to his servants, [a]‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 (D)for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:22 NU Quickly bring

(A)and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (B)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from (C)the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, (D)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. (E)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Read full chapter

47 (A)yet when they [a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, (B)saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’; 48 and when they (C)return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and (D)pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name: 49 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their [b]cause,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:47 Lit. bring back to their heart
  2. 1 Kings 8:49 justice

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”

And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!

Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and (A)departed, and went and hanged himself.

Read full chapter

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (A)For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and [a]self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (B)For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:25 M unrighteousness

10 (A)Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Read full chapter

12 Then the man said, (A)“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, (B)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Read full chapter

20 but (A)declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do (B)works befitting repentance.

Read full chapter

(A)He who covers a transgression seeks love,
But (B)he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Read full chapter

30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet (A)honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

Read full chapter

13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, (A)“Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”

Read full chapter

40 But (A)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their (B)uncircumcised hearts are (C)humbled, and they (D)accept their guilt—

42 then I will (E)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will (F)remember the land.

Read full chapter

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”

He said, (A)“I do not know. Am I (B)my brother’s keeper?”

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends