Confession of Sin

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Leviticus 5:5 OT

  It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

• Hosea 5:15 OT

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

• Job 33:27 OT

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28 OT

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

• Daniel 9:20-23 OT

  While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had…

• Joshua 7:19 OT

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Jeremiah 3:13 OT

  Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”

• James 5:16 NT

  Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

• Leviticus 26:40-42 OT

  “ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of…

• Proverbs 28:13 OT

  He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

• Leviticus 26:41 OT

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

• Nehemiah 9:33 OT

  However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

• Ezra 9:13 OT

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• 2 Samuel 24:10 OT

  David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

• Psalms 25:11 OT

  For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

• Psalms 51:1 OT

  Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

• Jeremiah 14:7-9 OT

  Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you. You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and…

• Jeremiah 14:20 OT

  We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

• Isaiah 64:5 OT

  You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

• Isaiah 64:6 OT

  For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

• Jeremiah 3:25 OT

  Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

• Psalms 38:18 OT

  For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

• Lamentations 1:20 OT

  “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

• Numbers 5:6 OT

  “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,