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 wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
• Luke 15:18–24I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
• Jer 3:12–13Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
• Ps 51:1–5For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Dan 9:20–23While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
• Exod 10:16–17Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
• Matt 23:25–28“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Gen 3:12–13The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
• Matt 3:6–10They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–49yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
• Jer 2:22–23For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Gen 4:9Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
• 1 Sam 15:24Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
• Lev 26:40–42“‘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,
• 1 Sam 15:30Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”
• Matt 27:4–5saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
• Prov 17:9He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
• 1 Sam 15:13Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

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