Bible Dictionary: Confessing Sin

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Topical Bible Verses

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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Hebrews 10:17
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
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1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleans us from all sin.
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Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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Library

Whether Contrition is an Assumed Sorrow for Sins, Together with ...
... confessing and of making satisfaction. On the contrary, stands the definition. I
answer that, As stated in Ecclus.10:15, "pride is the beginning of all sin," ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether contrition is an assumed.htm

First, I am to Consider what the Keeping of the Heart Supposes and ...
... to fear thee, to love and delight in thee, if I beg my bread in desolate places.'
It is observed of an eminent saint, that when he was confessing sin, he would ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/first i am to consider.htm

"If we Confess Our Sins, He is Faithful and Just to Forgive us Our ...
... sense of any particular guiltiness? That is a covering of sins. Or confessing
sin and not forsaking of it? That is a covering of ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xvii if we confess.htm

Achan's Sin.
... which remained as a memorial to warn others against sinning as Achan had
done. [Illustration: ACHAN CONFESSING HIS SIN.]. * * *. ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the old testament/achans sin.htm

Whether a General Confession Suffices to Blot Out Forgotten Mortal ...
... keys, to which man submits by confessing, provided he offers no obstacle so far
as he is concerned: but so far as the shame of confessing a sin diminishes its ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a general confession suffices.htm

Results of True Repentance.
... There are three ways of confessing sin. All sin is against God, and must be confessed
to Him. There are some sins I need never confess to anyone on earth. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/moody/the overcoming life/results of true repentance.htm

Whether one is Bound to Confess at Once?
... bound to confess; for instance, if he has to receive the Eucharist, to which no
one can approach, after committing a mortal sin, without confessing first, if a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether one is bound to.htm

Light and Darkness
... To Nicholas went many an anxious soul, confessing sin not lightly, as in
a confessional, but in the anguish of their hearts. And ...
/.../bevan/three friends of god/chapter xli light and darkness.htm

Whether Confession is According to the Natural Law?
... For Adam and Cain were bound to none but the precepts of the natural law,
and yet they are reproached for not confessing their sin. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether confession is according to.htm

Petilianus Said: "Woe unto You, Therefore, Who...
... of the highest righteousness, one of three conspicuous for righteousness, prays,
and says, "While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the ...
/.../chapter 106 240 petilianus.htm

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