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{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof; upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy; so, he that scandalizeth his brother, or the church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended, who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.","chapter":"15","citation":"WCF 15.6","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 15.6","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"6","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof;<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy;<sup id='fnref:wcf2'><a href='#fn:wcf2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> so, he that scandalizeth his brother, or the church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended,<sup id='fnref:wcf3'><a href='#fn:wcf3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.<sup id='fnref:wcf4'><a href='#fn:wcf4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup>","chapter":"15","citation":"WCF 15.6","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 15.6","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"6","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051004.01-1\">Against you, you only, have I sinned<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,<br />\nso that you may be justified in your words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.<br />\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-2\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051009.01-3\">Hide your face from my sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051014.01-4\">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 32:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-5\">I acknowledged my sin to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I did not cover my iniquity;<br />\nI said, “I will confess my transgressions to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032006.01-5\">Therefore let everyone who is godly<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;<br />\nsurely in the rush of great waters,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall not reach him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 28:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028013.01-1\">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001009.01-2\">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005016.01-1\">Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017003.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 7:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06007019.01-3\">Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-4\">51:1 </span>Have mercy on me, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;<br />\naccording to your abundant mercy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.<br />\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051003.01-4\">For I know my transgressions,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my sin is ever before me.<br />\n Against you, you only, have I sinned<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,<br />\nso that you may be justified in your words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.<br />\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.<br />\n Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-4\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br />\n Let me hear joy and gladness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.<br />\n Hide your face from my sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.<br />\n Create in me a clean heart, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.<br />\n Cast me not away from your presence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and take not your Holy Spirit from me.<br />\n Restore to me the joy of your salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051013.01-4\">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sinners will return to you.<br />\n Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.<br />\n O Lord, open my lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will declare your praise.<br />\n For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.<br />\n The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051018.01-4\">Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>build up the walls of Jerusalem;<br />\n then will you delight in right sacrifices,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then bulls will be offered on your altar. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002008.01-1\">So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life","type":"confession"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"mb-0 header\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Confession of Faith</h5>\n<h5 class=\"text-muted mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">6.</span> As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf2\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> so, he that scandalizeth his brother, or the church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf3\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf4\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup></p>\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Against you, you only, have I sinned\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,\nso that you may be justified in your words\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051009.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Hide your face from my sins,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051014.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 32:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I acknowledged my sin to you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I did not cover my iniquity;\nI said, \u201cI will confess my transgressions to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\u201d\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032006.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Therefore let everyone who is godly\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;\nsurely in the rush of great waters,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall not reach him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 28:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p62001009.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59005016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 17:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42017003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, \u2018I repent,\u2019 you must forgive him.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Joshua 7:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p06007019.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then Joshua said to Achan, \u201cMy son, give glory to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-4\">51:1\u00a0</span>Have mercy on me, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;\naccording to your abundant mercy\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051003.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For I know my transgressions,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my sin is ever before me.\n Against you, you only, have I sinned\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,\nso that you may be justified in your words\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.\n Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.\n Let me hear joy and gladness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.\n Hide your face from my sins,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.\n Create in me a clean heart, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.\n Cast me not away from your presence,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and take not your Holy Spirit from me.\n Restore to me the joy of your salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051013.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sinners will return to you.\n Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.\n O Lord, open my lips,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will declare your praise.\n For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.\n The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051018.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>build up the walls of Jerusalem;\n then will you delight in right sacrifices,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then bulls will be offered on your altar. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Corinthians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p47002008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"Of repentance unto life, part 6"}