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Confession
Verses
51 results- VersePsalms 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
- VerseJob 40:14Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.
- VerseJohn 1:20He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
- VersePhilippians 2:11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- VerseMatthew 10:32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
People
1 resultWords (Strong's)
2 results- WordH8426 תּוֹדָה · tôwdâh (Hebrew)properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration. The Hebrew word stands 31 times in the original text.
- WordG3670 ὁμολογέω · homologéō (Greek)to assent, i.e. covenant, acknowledge. The Greek word stands 26 times in the original text.
Themes
6 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
Topics
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6 results- StudyActs 8:37: The Ethiopian's confession, "If thou believest with all thine heart"The eunuch's confession of faith before baptism is missing from the earliest Greek manuscripts, though it was already known and quoted in the second century, most likely as a line from the church's…
- StudyThe Messianic Secret: Tell No OneJesus silences demons, the healed, and his own disciples: while everyone in Mark keeps asking who he is.
- StudyPrayer in Luke: Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, the Twelve, the confession, the mountain, the garden, the cross: plus the three prayer-parables found only here.
- StudyJob: the Study GuideGod does not unseal the file on why the righteous suffer; He unveils Himself. The prose frame, the collapsing three-cycle dialogue, the Redeemer confession of 19:25, and the whirlwind that answers a…
- StudyThe Penitential PsalmsSeven psalms read together as one set since at least the sixth century, each walking the same road from trouble owned to confession made to pardon received.
Voices
20 results- VoicePaulinus of MilanPaulinus was a deacon of the church of Milan who served as notary and personal secretary to Bishop Ambrose. He was with him at the end — he says he was present at Ambrose's…
- VoiceAnthony the GreatAnthony was born about 251 in Coma, a village in Middle Egypt, to Christian farmers with good land. He spoke Coptic, the Egyptian language, and never learned Greek. He would…
- VoicePacian of BarcelonaPacian was bishop of Barcelona in the second half of the fourth century. Jerome, who included him in his catalogue of Christian writers, says he was distinguished both for his…
- VoiceCharles CappsCharles Capps (April 5, 1934 – May 23, 2014) was an American Pentecostal-Charismatic Bible teacher, ordained minister, and one of the principal articulators (with Kenneth…
- VoiceAnnette CappsAnnette Capps is an American Pentecostal-Charismatic Bible teacher, author, ordained minister, and the daughter of Charles Capps (Tier 2). She has co-authored multiple titles…
Apocrypha (study resources)
3 results- Study resourceBaruch 1:14And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:91And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men…
- Study resource1 Enoch 63:8And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not, And we find no respite for confession That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His…