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 that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Job 31:33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
• Luke 15:18–24I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
• Jer 3:12–13Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
• Ps 51:1–5Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
• Dan 9:20–23And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Exod 10:16–17Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
• Matt 23:25–28Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Acts 26:20But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
• Gen 3:12–13And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
• Matt 3:6–10And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–49Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
• Jer 2:22–23For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
• Gen 4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
• 1 Sam 15:24And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
• Lev 26:40–42If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
• 1 Sam 15:30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
• Matt 27:4–5Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
• Prov 17:9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
• 1 Sam 15:13And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.