confession
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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. 10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation. 11For Scripture says: “All those who believe in him shall not be confounded.”
2The Spirit of God may be known in this way. Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has arrived in the flesh is of God;
23Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
33But whoever will have denied me before men, I also will deny before my Father, who is in heaven.
10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
15Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
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. 10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
8But I say to you: Everyone who will have confessed me before men, the Son of man will also confess him before the Angels of God.
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. 6For this, everyone who is holy will pray to you in due time. Yet truly, in a flood of many waters, they will not draw near to him.
3and every spirit who contradicts Jesus is not of God. And this one is the Antichrist, the one that you have heard is coming, and even now he is in the world.
19Therefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped away.