confession of sin

Go 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.

Jeremiah 3:12

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:13

Turn. O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion

Jeremiah 3:14

And I will give you pastor according to mine heart which shall fees you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 3:15

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD they shall say no more. The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mine neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

Jeremiah 3:16

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

Jeremiah 3:17

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

Jeremiah 3:18

But I said, how shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and  I said. Thou shalt call me, my father; and shalt not turn away from me.

Jeremiah 3:19

Surely as a wife treacherously departch from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me. O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:20

A voice was heard upon the high, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 3:21

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:22

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

Jeremiah 3:23

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 3:24

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:25

confession of sin

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their Father's with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me.

Leviticus 26:40

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies, if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity.

Leviticus 26:41

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Issac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:42

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbath's while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity because, even because they despised my judgements, and because their soul abhorred my status.

Leviticus 26:43

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them for I am the LORD their God.

Leviticus 26:44

But I will for their  sakes remember covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am LORD.

Leviticus 26:45

Those are status and judgements and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 26:46

confession of sin

And the son said unto him, father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

Luke 15:21

But the Father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

Luke 15:22

And bring hitter the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry.

Luke 15:23

For this my son was dead, and is alive again, he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:24

Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew night to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:25

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

Luke 15:26

And he said unto him, thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound 

Luke 15:27

And he was angry, and would not go in; therefore came his father out, and interested him.

Luke 15:28

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment and yet thou never gavest me a kid; that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:29

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Luke 15:30

And he said unto him, son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

Luke 15:31

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad; for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:32

CONFESSION OF SIN

If we confess our sins, he is 

 faithful and just to forgive

  us our sins, and to cleans

               us from all

          unrighteousness

            ( 1 John 1:9 ).