Proverbs 28:13

Modern King James Version

He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 4:9

And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?

2 Samuel 12:13

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

2 Samuel 14:32

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here so that I may send you to the king, to say, Why have I come from Geshur? It was good for me to be there still. And now let me see the king's face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.

2 Kings 20:15

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures which I have not shown to them.

2 Chronicles 6:26

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

Ezra 10:11

And now confess to Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do His pleasure. And separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange women.

Ezra 10:2

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken strange women from the people of the land. Yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Nehemiah 9:2

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins and the sins of their fathers.

Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Job 33:27

He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

Job 34:31

For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

Psalm 51:10

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

Proverbs 17:9

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

Isaiah 55:7

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

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

Leviticus 5:5

And it shall be when he is guilty in one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

Jonah 3:10

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God was compassionate over the evil that He had said to do to them, and He did not do it.

Acts 26:20

But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance

Judges 10:15

And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do You to us whatever is good in Your eyes; only deliver us, we pray You, today.

1 Samuel 15:13

And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, You are blessed of Jehovah. I have done the command of Jehovah.

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned. For I have disobeyed the command of Jehovah, and your word, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then he said, I have sinned. Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and turn again with me. And I shall worship Jehovah your God.