Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'confess' occurs 54 times in the standard works.

13 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'confess' in the standard works and contain 24.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 27:31 (3 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 26:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:88-89 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:91-92 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 11 9 20
Lev. 3 0 3
Num. 1 0 1
Josh. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 2 1 3
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 1 2 3
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 0 1 1
Dan. 0 2 2
NT 17 10 27
BM 15 6 21
DC 11 5 16
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 54 31 85

Josh. 7:19
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

2 Chr. 30:22
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

Ezra 10:1
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Ezra 10:11
Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

Neh. 9:2
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Neh. 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God.

Prov. 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Dan. 9:4
And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

Dan. 9:20
And 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;