Proverbs 28:13

Hiding sin leads to ruin, but confessing and forsaking it brings mercy. It teaches that honest repentance, not concealment, is the path to grace.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Job 31:33if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
• Luke 15:18–24I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
• Jer 3:12–13Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
• Ps 51:1–5For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
• Dan 9:20–23While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
• Exod 10:16–17Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
• Matt 23:25–28Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
• Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
• Gen 3:12–13And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
• Matt 3:6–10Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–49and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
• Jer 2:22–23Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
• Gen 4:9And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
• 1 Sam 15:24Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
• Lev 26:40–42But 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—
• 1 Sam 15:30“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
• Matt 27:4–5“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
• Prov 17:9Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
• 1 Sam 15:13When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”

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