Proverbs 28:13

Modern English Version

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 4:9

The Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.

2 Samuel 14:32

Absalom said to Joab, “Behold, I sent a message to you, saying: Come, so that I may send you to the king, asking, ‘Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.’ Now, let me go before the king, and if there is still guilt with me, may he put me to death.”

2 Kings 20:15

He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

2 Chronicles 6:26

“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Ezra 10:11

Now therefore make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do what pleases Him: Sever your relationships with the people of the land, especially from the foreign women.”

Ezra 10:2

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, saying, “We have acted with vile unfaithfulness against our God and have wedded foreign women from the people of the land, yet there is now hope in Israel concerning this.

Nehemiah 9:2

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all the foreigners and then stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Job 31:33

if I covered my transgressions as any man, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Job 33:27

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me.’

Job 34:31

“Should anyone say to God, ‘I have borne chastisement, I will offend no more;

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 17:9

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates the best of friends.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely His anger shall turn away from me.” Behold, I will judge you, because you say, “I have not sinned.”

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.”

Leviticus 5:5

When he becomes guilty of one of these things, he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their actions, that they turned from their evil ways, He changed His mind about the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works proving their repentance.

Judges 10:15

Then the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good in Your sight. Please, just deliver us today.”

1 Samuel 15:13

Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord. I have carried out the word of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 15:24

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then he said, “I have sinned, yet please honor me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”