CONFESSION

Passages on this topic · 45

• Matthew 3:11

  I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 7:21

  Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 7:22

  Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

• Matthew 7:23

  Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

• Matthew 10:32

  Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 10:33

  But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

• Luke 12:8

  “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;

• John 1:15

  John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

• John 1:16

  From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

• John 1:17

  For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

• John 1:18

  No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

• John 9:22

  His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

• John 9:23

  Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

• John 9:24

  So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

• John 9:25

  He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

• John 9:26

  They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

• John 9:27

  He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

• John 9:28

  They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

• John 9:29

  We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

• John 9:30

  The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

• John 9:31

  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

• John 9:32

  Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

• John 9:33

  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

• John 9:34

  They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

• John 9:35

  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

• John 9:36

  He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

• John 9:37

  Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

• John 9:38

  He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.

• John 12:42

  Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

• John 12:43

  for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

• Acts 8:35

  Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

• Acts 8:36

  As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

• Acts 8:37
• Acts 18:5

  But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

• Acts 19:4

  Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

• Acts 19:5

  When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

• Romans 10:9

  that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

• Romans 10:10

  For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

• Romans 10:11

  For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• 1 Corinthians 12:3

  Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

• 1 John 1:6

  If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

• 1 John 2:4

  One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

• 1 John 4:2

  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

• 1 John 4:3

  and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

• 1 John 4:15

  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.