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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 28:13
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The one who conceals his sinswill not prosper,but whoever confesses and renounces themwill find mercy.
He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
One who conceals his wrongdoings will not prosper, But one who confesses and abandons them will find compassion.
If you hide your sins, you will not succeed. If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But whoever confesses and turns away from his sins will find compassion and mercy.
He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper,But he who confesses and forsakes them will receive compassion.
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
If you don't confess your sins, you will be a failure. But God will be merciful if you confess your sins and give them up.
He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy.
Whoever hides their sins will not be successful, but whoever confesses their sins and stops doing wrong will receive mercy.
He who hides his transgression shall not prosper; but he who confesses his sins and forsakes them, God will have mercy upon him.
You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.
He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.
He who covers his sins never prospers, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have pity.
He that hydeth his synnes, shall not prospere: but who so knowlegeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
He that couereth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but who so confesseth and forsaketh them, shall haue mercie.
He that hydeth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but whoso knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.
A sluggard when sent on a journey says, There is a lion in the ways, and there are murderers in the streets.
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
He that hidith hise grete trespassis, schal not be maad riytful; but he that knoulechith and forsakith tho, schal gete merci.
He that covers his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoever confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.
It will not go well for the man who hides his sins, but he who tells his sins and turns from them will be given loving-pity.
No one who conceals transgressions will prosper, but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
He that covereth his transgressions, shall not prosper, but, he that confesseth and forsaketh, shall find compassion.
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that: Proverbs 10:12, Proverbs 17:9, Genesis 3:12, Genesis 3:13, Genesis 4:9, 1 Samuel 15:13, 1 Samuel 15:24, Job 31:33, Psalms 32:3-5, Jeremiah 2:22, Jeremiah 2:23, Matthew 23:25-28
whoso: Leviticus 26:40-42, 1 Kings 8:47-49, Job 33:27, Psalms 51:1-5, Psalms 51:10, Jeremiah 3:12, Jeremiah 3:13, Daniel 9:20-23, Luke 15:18-24, 1 John 1:8-10
and forsaketh: Exodus 10:16, Exodus 10:17, 1 Samuel 15:30, Matthew 3:6-10, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:5, Acts 26:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:15 - denied Genesis 37:20 - Some Genesis 37:31 - General Genesis 50:17 - they did Leviticus 5:5 - confess Leviticus 13:23 - General Leviticus 16:21 - confess over Numbers 5:7 - confess Joshua 7:19 - make Judges 10:15 - We have sinned 1 Samuel 15:15 - for 2 Samuel 11:6 - Send me 2 Samuel 12:13 - I have sinned 2 Samuel 14:32 - if there 2 Samuel 20:20 - that I should 2 Samuel 24:10 - I have sinned 2 Kings 20:15 - All the things 1 Chronicles 15:13 - for that 2 Chronicles 6:24 - shall return 2 Chronicles 6:26 - turn 2 Chronicles 7:14 - turn from 2 Chronicles 30:9 - will not Ezra 10:11 - make confession Job 9:30 - General Job 34:32 - if Psalms 32:5 - acknowledged Psalms 38:18 - For Psalms 51:3 - For I Psalms 119:26 - declared Isaiah 39:4 - All that Isaiah 55:7 - the wicked Jeremiah 2:35 - Because Jeremiah 7:3 - Amend Lamentations 1:20 - for Ezekiel 18:21 - if the Ezekiel 33:14 - if he Daniel 4:27 - break Malachi 2:16 - covereth Mark 1:5 - confessing Luke 3:13 - Exact John 8:11 - go Acts 19:18 - confessed Ephesians 4:28 - steal no more 1 John 1:9 - we confess
Cross-References
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield. Your reward will be grand!"
Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan Aram to get a wife there, and while blessing him commanded, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman," and that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan Aram. When Esau realized how deeply his father Isaac disliked the Canaanite women, he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son. This was in addition to the wives he already had.
Jacob woke up from his sleep. He said, " God is in this place—truly. And I didn't even know it!" He was terrified. He whispered in awe, "Incredible. Wonderful. Holy. This is God's House. This is the Gate of Heaven."
And then Jacob prayed, "God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, God who told me, ‘Go back to your parents' homeland and I'll treat you well.' I don't deserve all the love and loyalty you've shown me. When I left here and crossed the Jordan I only had the clothes on my back, and now look at me—two camps! Save me, please, from the violence of my brother, my angry brother! I'm afraid he'll come and attack us all, me, the mothers and the children. You yourself said, ‘I will treat you well; I'll make your descendants like the sands of the sea, far too many to count.'"
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."
God said, "I am the God of your father. Don't be afraid of going down to Egypt. I'm going to make you a great nation there. I'll go with you down to Egypt; I'll also bring you back here. And when you die, Joseph will be with you; with his own hand he'll close your eyes."
Jacob said to Joseph, "The Strong God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said, ‘I'm going to make you prosperous and numerous, turn you into a congregation of tribes; and I'll turn this land over to your children coming after you as a permanent inheritance.' I'm adopting your two sons who were born to you here in Egypt before I joined you; they have equal status with Reuben and Simeon. But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance. I want it this way because, as I was returning from Paddan, your mother Rachel, to my deep sorrow, died as we were on our way through Canaan when we were only a short distance from Ephrath, now called Bethlehem."
Then he said, "I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper,.... God may cover a man's sins, and it is an instance of his grace, and it is the glory of it to do it, but a man may not cover his own: it is right in one good man to cover the sins of another, reproving him secretly, and freely forgiving him; but it is wrong in a man to cover his own: not that any man is bound to accuse himself before a court of judicature, or ought to expose his sins to the public, which would be to the hurt of his credit, and to the scandal of religion; but whenever he is charged with sin, and reproved for it by his fellow Christian, be should not cover it, that is, he should own it; for not to own and acknowledge it is to cover it; he should not deny it, which is to cover it with a lie, and is adding sin to sin; nor should he justify it, as if he had done a right thing; nor extenuate or excuse it, or impute it to others that drew him into it, as Adam, which is called a covering transgression, as Adam, Job 31:33; for such a man "shall not prosper"; in soul or body, in things temporal or spiritual; he shall not have peace of mind and conscience; but, sooner or later, shall feel the stings it; he shall not succeed even in those things he has in view by covering his sins; he shall not be able to cover them long, for there is nothing covered but what shall be revealed; if not in this life, which yet often is, however at the day of judgment, when every secret thing shall be made manifest; nor shall he escape the shame and punishment he thought to avoid by covering it, as may be observed in the case of Achan, Joshua 7:11; in short, he shall have no mercy shown him by God or man, as appears by the antithesis in the next clause;
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy; who confesses them to men privately and publicly, according to the nature of the offences, from whom they find mercy; but not to a priest, in order for absolution, which no man can give; sin is only in this sense to be confessed to God, against it is committed, and who only can pardon it; and though it is known unto him, yet he requires an acknowledgment of it, which should be done from the heart, with an abhorrence of the sin, and in the faith of Christ, as a sacrifice for it; and it is not enough to confess, there must be a forsaking likewise, a parting with sin, a denying of sinful self, a leaving the former course of sin, and a quitting the company of wicked men before used to, and an abstaining from all appearance of evil; as is and will be the case, where there is a true sight and sense of sin, and the grace of God takes place: and such find "mercy", pardoning grace and mercy, or pardon in a way of mercy, and not merit; for though the sinner confesses and forsakes it, it is not that which merits pardon and mercy in God, who is rich in it, delights in showing it, and from whom it may be hoped for and expected by all such persons; see
Psalms 32:5. So the Targum and Syriac version, God will have mercy on him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The conditions of freedom are confession and amendment, confession to God of sins against Him, to men of sins against them. The teaching of ethical wisdom on this point is identical with that of psalmist, prophet, apostles, and our Lord Himself.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 28:13. He that covereth his sins — Here is a general direction relative to conversion.
1. If the sinner do not acknowledge his sins; if he cover and excuse them, and refuse to come to the light of God's word and Spirit, lest his deeds should be reproved, he shall find no salvation. God will never admit a sinful, unhumbled soul, into his kingdom.
2. But if he confess his sin, with a penitent and broken heart, and, by forsaking every evil way, give this proof that he feels his own sore, and the plague of his heart, then he shall have mercy. Here is a doctrine of vital importance to the salvation of the soul, which the weakest may understand.
