Proverbs 28:13

Tree of Life Version

One who covers up his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them finds mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 4:9

Then Adonai said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” “I don’t know,” he said. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Adonai.” Nathan replied to David, “Adonai also has made your sin pass away—you will not die.

2 Samuel 14:32

“Look, I sent word to you,” Absalom said to Joab, “saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’” So now, let me see the king’s face and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death.”

2 Kings 20:15

Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing of my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”

2 Chronicles 6:26

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, turning from their sin because You afflicted them,

Ezra 10:11

So now, give praise to Adonai, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from your foreign wives.”

Ezra 10:2

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.

Nehemiah 9:2

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Job 31:33

if I have I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my guilt in my bosom

Job 33:27

He sings to others, saying, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.

Job 34:31

“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have born chastisement, but I will not act wickedly any more.

Psalm 51:10

Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife but love covers up all transgressions.

Proverbs 17:9

Whoever covers up an offense seeks love. Whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent— surely His anger is turned away from me?’ See, I will pass judgment on you, since you say: ‘I haven’t sinned!’

Daniel 4:27

the king exclaimed, “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built as the royal residence by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Leviticus 5:5

“So it will be, when one becomes guilty of one of these things, he shall confess about what he has sinned.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their deeds—that they turned from their wicked ways—God relented from the calamity that He said He would do to them, and did not do it.

Acts 26:20

Rather, I kept declaring—first to those in Damascus, and then Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also the Gentiles—that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with that repentance.

Judges 10:15

Then Bnei-Yisrael said to Adonai, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to You, but please, deliver us this day.”

1 Samuel 15:13

Now when Samuel reached Saul, Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of Adonai! I have carried out Adonai’s command.”

1 Samuel 15:24

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned! For I have transgressed against the word of Adonai and your words—because I feared the people and listened to their voice.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then Saul said, “I have sinned! But please, honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me until I bow in worship to Adonai your God.”