Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.
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.
- BSB Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing 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.
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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 the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
- Matt 3:6They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
- Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
- Ezek 36:31Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
- Ezek 16:63that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
- Lev 16:21Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
- Jer 3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”
- Lev 26:40“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
- Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
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