Bible Verses About Confessing Sins
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for confessing sins, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,772 votes, led by 1 John 1:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Confessing Sins
1 John 1:9336 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 5:16297 votes
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.
Proverbs 28:13170 votes
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Psalms 32:5164 votes
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.
1 Timothy 2:5134 votes
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
John 20:19-2488 votes
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Acts 19:1876 votes
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
John 20:2374 votes
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
1 John 2:171 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Romans 7:15-2565 votes
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
2 Samuel 12:1360 votes
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.
Matthew 3:655 votes
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Psalms 51:1-1953 votes
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Matthew 9:6-853 votes
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Matthew 18:1852 votes
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Hebrews 4:1650 votes
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Romans 10:949 votes
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.
Acts 3:1947 votes
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Romans 3:2341 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Acts 17:3038 votes
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Leviticus 5:537 votes
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:
James 4:1737 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Psalms 32:336 votes
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Mark 1:535 votes
And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
Romans 10:1035 votes
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
What does the Bible say about confessing sins?
Readers most often cite 1 John 1:9 on the subject of confessing sins. Across 3,772 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 5:16, Proverbs 28:13, Psalms 32:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.