Confession
practiceThe honest acknowledgment of sin before God and others — the pathway to forgiveness, healing, and restored fellowship.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Confession connects to different paths in Scripture:
Confession arises from Humility and Grace, and leads to Peace and Perseverance.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”1 John 1:9 →
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”Romans 5:1 →
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Anchor Scriptures 20 verses
“And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:”
Read in context →“And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”
Read in context →“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”
Read in context →“And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.”
Read in context →“And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.”
Read in context →“Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.”
Read in context →“Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.”
Read in context →“He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;”
Read in context →“I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”
Read in context →“In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.”
Read in context →“And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”
Read in context →“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Read in context →“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
Read in context →“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
Read in context →“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Read in context →“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
Read in context →“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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