confess
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9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
16Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
13Whoever hides his crimes will not be guided. But whoever will have confessed and abandoned them shall overtake mercy.
9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.
11and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
5I have acknowledged my offense to you, and I have not concealed my injustice. I said, “I will confess against myself, my injustice to the Lord,” and you forgave the impiety of my sin.
15Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
23No one who denies the Son also has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son, also has the Father.
12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.
3Because I was silent, my bones grew old, while still I cried out all day long.