Verses about 'confession'
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms 51:17
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.
James 5:16
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Jeremiah 3:22
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them.
Jeremiah 31:9
But if they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me.
Leviticus 26:40
I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke 15:21
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 18:13
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 10:32
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.
Psalms 32:5
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 38:18
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight.
Psalms 51:4
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10