Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
- KJV And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
- NKJV And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.
- NASB Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
- NLT Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.
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Many believers came forward, openly confessing and disclosing their former practices.
Overview
Genuine conviction led these converts to bring their hidden deeds into the light, breaking with their occult past. Such open confession marked true repentance and a decisive turning to Christ. The verse shows that real faith bears fruit in honest renunciation of sin.
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Cross-references · 11
- Rom 10:10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
- Matt 3:6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- Ps 32:5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
- Ezek 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
- Ezek 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Lev 16:21Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
- Jer 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
- Lev 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- Job 33:27–28Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
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