100 Bible Verses about Confession Of Faith

James 5:16 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 109 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 69 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 48 helpful votes

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

1 John 2:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes

No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Luke 12:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

1 John 4:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Matthew 10:32 ESV / 38 helpful votes

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

Leviticus 5:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

When he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 4:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Galatians 3:13-14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 10:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

John 6:44 ESV / 30 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 1:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Matthew 8:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 19:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 4:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 28 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 3:23-24 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Acts 17:30 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 10:43 ESV / 28 helpful votes

To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

John 20:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

John 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Mark 1:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Mark 1:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 3:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Daniel 9:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes

We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

Psalm 32:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Nehemiah 9:2-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.

Numbers 5:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

He shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

John 1:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

John 16:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 14:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 1:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Romans 10:8-10 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 4:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

James 4:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

James 1:25 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

James 1:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Hebrews 10:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 3:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Colossians 2:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Philippians 3:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Philippians 2:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

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