Quotes about Confession

There is a reason Scripture instructs us to "hold fast our confession" of faith (Heb. 4:14), and to pray without being double minded or without wavering (James 1:5—8). Confession is always verbal and never just mental agreement. Prayer is verbal petitioning but holding on to your prayer centers on confession

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,

or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

“It is true,” Achan replied, “I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:

Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.