100 Bible Verses about Confess With Your Mouth

Romans 10:9 ESV / 246 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you 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 10:9-10 ESV / 141 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 1:9 ESV / 113 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 105 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Mark 11:23-24 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Romans 10:1-21 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

James 5:16 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 10:13 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

1 John 4:15 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 10:32 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

John 3:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 12:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,

Romans 10:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

Philippians 2:11 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 10:32-34 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

John 6:44 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Deuteronomy 30:14 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

John 14:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

2 John 1:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 10:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 1:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Matthew 6:9-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. ...

Leviticus 5:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

1 John 4:2-3 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Romans 14:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Romans 10:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 10:9-11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 1:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

2 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

Romans 5:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...

Joel 2:32 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 8:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

Acts 16:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Mark 6:1-56 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. ...

Mark 3:1-35 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ...

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Acts 8:37 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ...

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

1 Kings 8:35 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

1 John 4:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 2:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

John 9:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

Leviticus 26:40 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Romans 10:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

Romans 6:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

Romans 4:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Acts 23:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

John 12:42 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Leviticus 18:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 10:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

John 16:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 12:42-43 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 14:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

1 John 4:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 5:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

James 2:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...